For sure!
As I once said, there is a time and place for patterns in literature, and entertainment. For example, Star Wars works, when it follows its mythical pattern of the heroes journey, and fails when you subvert that trope for agenda reasons.
These four books in the Crisis of Empire Series by David Drake - Who actually, only wrote the outline for the arc, as each installment has its own author, follow a very distinct storytelling pattern, and part of the fun in reading them, is discovering that pattern unfold along the way.
The four installments are:
1. An Honorable Defense
2. Cluster Command
3. The War Machine
4. Crown of Empire
Once again, these novels are filled with good female characters, who don't need to be MarySue-d. The final book even has a Princess, who sets out to do whats best for her people, be they human, or alien.
This series, would make for an epic movies franchise. But that's never going to happen. This is Sci-Fi storytelling from, a now Classic, lost era of the genre.
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