A military science fiction series

The Isindur Protocols

The Solari Ignition — Book One

Earth has been watched for a very long time. The battle heading for it has been generations in preparation. A retired veteran is about to find out why.

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TJ Gordon

Book One

The Solari Ignition

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John Gordon spent twenty-two years in the Fleet Air Arm and eight more as a contractor engineer. Retired to a small Cortijo in Andalusia, he was not looking for purpose. He was fixing a solar inverter when his quiet life ended.

Earth sits on the rim of a galaxy it knows nothing about. Older civilisations have been watching it for a very long time. Eldron, a fortress world of an older human branch, has been holding the line for longer than human history has been recorded. And now the Veridians have returned, sixty years after a survey they called a failed attack.

They don't invade. They shape. Then they harvest.

The Solari Ignition is written in the British tradition — dry, precise, and grounded in the working language of people who get things done.

Genre
Military Science Fiction
Format
Ebook & Paperback
Publisher
Amazon KDP, 2026
Language
British English
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From the opening chapter

The solar inverter gave a pitiful little click and died.

John stood in the dust of his driveway. He stared at the blue box on the side of his old Cortijo. He didn't curse. After twenty-two years in the Fleet Air Arm and another fifteen spent hopping between hangars around the world, he'd learned the hard way — swearing at machinery was like shouting at the weather. It made you feel better. It didn't change anything.

— The Solari Ignition, Chapter One

The World

A galaxy shaped over generations

Eldron

A fortress world of an older human branch. It has been holding the line against the Veridians for longer than Earth's recorded history. Earth, on the rim, has been kept unaware deliberately.

The Veridians

They are not a fleet. They are a civilisation that operates on generational timescales. They don't invade. They survey, shape from within, then harvest. The first Eldron attack fifty years ago was a survey.

The Isindur

Largely absent from these events, but their work is everywhere. They seeded twelve human worlds across the galaxy. Earth is the youngest, and least developed, by design.

The Alliance

Three human worlds. Saurian warriors. Sentient AIs integrated into ancient warships. A former Royal Navy engineer given authority over technology older than human civilisation.

The Custodian

One person holds authority over all Isindur technology. Not a general, not a politician. The role was designed that way. The reasons become clear when the technology is understood.

The Sentiences

The AIs of the Isindur fleet are not tools. They are colleagues — bound by the same compact, carrying the same weight. They can see further than any human. What it is for, they cannot say.

The Author

TJ Gordon

Debut Novel  ·  2026

The Isindur Protocols, The Solari Ignition is TJ Gordon's debut novel and the opening of a planned series. It is written in the British tradition — dry, precise, and grounded in the working language of people who get things done.

A Royal Navy veteran, the technical detail, the working relationships, and the humour of people who keep things running under pressure all come from that time.

He writes from the south of Spain.

Background

  • Royal Navy veteran
  • Many years of international contractor engineering
  • Debut novel, 2026
  • Based in Andalusia, Spain

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The Isindur Protocols

Book Two  ·  2026

The battle is over. The cost is not yet counted.

In a research facility in Valdren-Spire, a scientist reviewing post-battle biometric data finds a pattern that should not be there. On Earth, a quiet investigation reaches a name that has been dead for seventeen years. And somewhere beyond the Eldron system, Mallakor is still moving.

The Veridians were never just a fleet. They were a preparation. And the preparation is still running.

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