Though they contemplated your final suicide objective of blood, guts, and glory, the Exts knew their warrior superskills were simply no match for the LAW–Legal Annexation of Worlds–who were sent into space from the mighty Periapt potentates to colonize new populations against the evil, alien Roke. Among the Ext draftees bound for Periapt had been Allgrave Burning up, his techno-wizard cousin Lod, and gorgeous, death-scarred Ghost, all sworn to a greater purpose, destined to battle within a star-torn battle like none additional. For a strange, danger-shrouded planet beckoned them–along having a disgraced starship captain and a robust high priestess–for the greatest fights of their lives .