Detta kan vara Empire från asken -serien av böcker av David Weber, som ursprungligen publicerades 1991.
Du kan läsa den första boken i serien (Mutineers Moon) gratis online här
"For Colin MacIntyre, it began with a routine training flight over the moon. For Dahak, a self-aware Imperial battleship, it began millennia ago, standing guard against an unknown enemy which once devastated the galaxy-and now has returned. So Dahak grabbed MacIntyre's ship and informed him that he was drafted to be its new captain and lead the fight against the ancient enemy.
Månen är ett måttstort rymdskepp
"It's not possible," MacIntyre said stubbornly. "If this thing is the size you say, what happened to the real moon?" "It was destroyed," his informant said calmly. "With the exception of sufficient of its original material to make up the negligible difference in diameter, it was dropped into your sun. It is standard Fleet procedure to camouflage picket units or any capital ship that may be required to spend extended periods in systems not claimed by the Imperium."
"You camouflaged your ship as our moon? That's insane!" "On the contrary, Commander. A planetoid-class starship is not an easy object to hide. Replacing an existing moon of appropriate size is by far the simplest means of concealment, particularly when, as in this case, the original surface contours are faithfully recreated as part of the procedure."
Han har gjort kejsaren som en del av ett försök att hacka in i en stridsdator;
"Damn it. Damn it! We need an emperor to get into the goddamned system, and the last > emperor died forty-five thousand years ago!" "Captain," Dahak said after a moment, "I believe there might be a way."
"Colin screamed in the grip of an agony too vast to endure, and yet it was over before he > could truly experience it. Its echoes shuddered away down his synapses, stuttering in the racing pound of his heart, and then they were gone. "Case Omega executed," Mother said emotionlessly. "The Emperor is dead; long live the Emperor!" "