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[[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]], Lieutenant Commander Colin MacIntyre is on a mission to map the dark side of the Moon. Imagine his surprise when it kidnaps him instead! ''Dahak'' has been waiting abandoned in orbit, camouflaged and disguised as the Moon. Its AI has been awake and idle the whole time, unable to act due to conflicting orders. It forces Colin to become its new captain, so it can finally bring the mutineers to justice and free ''Dahak'' to attend its other duties.
What other duties? ''Dahak'' was originally stationed to defend against an invasion by the "Achuultani". Those mysterious aliens make periodic genocidal rampages, eradicating all intelligent life they encounter, and were responsible for the destruction of three previous galaxy-spanning empires. By the time Colin first hears this explanation, ''Dahak'' has detected clear signs that the next invasion wave is on its way
''[[Empire From the Ashes]]'' is the omnibus re-issue of [[David Weber]]'s ''Dahak'' trilogy, which consists of ''Mutineers' Moon'', ''The Armageddon Inheritance'', and ''Heirs of Empire''. The entire series is available for free [http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/09-AtAllCostsCD/AtAllCostsCD/Empire%20From%20the%20Ashes/index.htm on the Publisher's site.]{{Dead link}}
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* [[Genre Savvy]]: Colin gets a moment of this in the first book when he [[lampshade]]s the [[Tractor Beam]] that is the first phase of being [[Press-Ganged]] by Dahak.
* [[Grand Theft Me]]: the lead mutineers pulled this via brain transplants.
* [[Go On Without Me]]
* [[The Great Politics Mess-Up]]: A small case, irrelevant to the greater story: Mutineers' Moon mentions Colin as having been selected for the first joint US-''Soviet'' interstellar flight crew.
* [[Have You Told Anyone Else?]]
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]
* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: Multiple, but two stand out.
** The Fourth Empire and their Empire-spanning 'Mat-Trans' system that had no bio-filter.
** 'Mister X' and his planting of a 'journal' on his designated fall guy.
* [[Humans Are Their Own Precursors]]: Escapees from the ship after a failed mutiny were the progenitors of humanity as Earth thinks it knows it, and some of the still-alive mutineers have been living amongst us, biding their time.
* [[Humans Are Warriors]]
** Eleven invasions, four of them against humanity, and all but the last one completed at a horrific cost, even by the AI's standards. The last one (in the books) was as close to completely wiped out as they come.
* [[Incendiary Exponent]]
* [[Instant AI, Just Add Water]]: [[Playing with a Trope|Played with]]. Take a starship AI the size of a large warehouse, let it run unsupervised for 50,000 years and hey presto! You get a starship the size of the [[That's No Moon|moon]] that can think for itself and ignore its [[Restraining Bolt|core programming]] at will.
* [[Insufficiently Advanced Alien]]:
* [[Just One Little Mistake]]:
* [[Late to the Party]]:
* [[Lost Colony]]: Pardal
* [[Loyal Phlebotinum]]: ''Dahak'' becomes this of his own, electronic free will.
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