Armada is about a teenager in 2018 who discovers that his late father's conspiracy theory that pop culture for decades has been manipulated to prepare Earth for an alien invasion is true, and that his top ranking among players of a popular online space-fighter simulation has made him a candidate to do the real thing on behalf of the secret international organization which has been behind all of this.



“What if they’re using videogames to train us to fight without us even knowing it? Like Mr. Miyagi in The Karate Kid, when he made Daniel-san paint his house, sand his deck, and wax all of his cars—he was training him and he didn’t even realize it! Wax on, wax off—but on a global scale!”


"I felt like Luke Skywalker surveying a hangar full of A-, Y-, and X-Wing Fighters just before the Battle of Yavin. Or Captain Apollo, climbing into the cockpit of his Viper on the Galactica’s flight deck. Ender Wiggin arriving at Battle School. Or Alex Rogan, clutching his Star League uniform, staring wide-eyed at a hangar full of Gunstars."