Books in the The Machineries of Empire series

Shuos Jedao is awake.... and nothing is as he remembers. In his mind he's a teenager, a cadet-a nobody. But he finds himself in the body of an old man, a general controlling the elite forces of the hexarchate, and the most feared man in the galaxy. Jedao carries orders from Hexarch Nirai Kujen to re-conquer the fractured pieces of the hexarchate.

Shuos Jedao is unleashed. The long-dead general, preserved with exotic technologies as a weapon, has possessed the body of gifted young captain Kel Cheris.Now, General Kel Khiruev's fleet, racing to the Severed March to stop a fresh enemy incursion, has fallen under Jedao's sway.