For greater than a century, Winged Hussars has been the richest of Earth’s mercenary businesses, as well as the only one to specialize in space warfare. Led by Alexis Cromwell, they have carved out a reputation in the galaxy to be reliable, unflappable, and lethally effective. Until people started capturing at them everywhere they went.

Rick Culper remaining Earth in the hopes of finding employment as a merc. A natural at fighting in the armed suits known as CASPers, he finally caught on with among the premier Four Horsemen businesses, but it’s using the Winged Hussars, and the company’s prospects are beginning to look bleak.

Traps have already been laid within a quantity of systems, and Commander Alexis Cromwell and her flagship, Pegasus, will be hard-pressed to make it back again to their secret base. Even with Rick’s help, the problem is much even worse than anyone in the Hussars could have dreamed. The Four Horsemen are being hunted, and the Hussars’s future is certainly dark. But there’s one thing Alexis’s opponents didn’t rely on-Alexis Cromwell is nobody’s prey.