The Search for Erik Cain...
The
Superpowers of Earth have fought their final war, leaving Earth a
devastated ruin, populated only by scattered groups of survivors living
in primitive squalor. Out in space, however, humanity moves forward, and
the former colonies of Earth’s dead nations are now free from the yoke
of the despotic governments that had long ruled over them. For many, it
is their first taste of liberty. But a thousand free worlds, varying
enormously in wealth and power, cannot long exist in peace, and soon
they begin to fight, to seek to bend their neighbors to their wills.
Darius
Cain is the commander of the Black Eagles, the most feared and renowned
of all the mercenary companies that fight the colonies’ wars. His
veteran warriors have fought dozens of battles, and they have never met
their equals. The wealthiest colonies compete to hire the Eagles, for
contracting with Cain’s warriors is the surest guarantee of victory in
any dispute.
But there is another power, one whose very
existence has been the most closely-guarded secret in human history. The
Triumvirate. For decades, it has operated in the shadows, interfering
secretly in the affairs of the former colonies while steadily building
an invincible war machine. But the Triumvirate has come to fear the
Black Eagles, and the decision has been made. Darius Cain’s private army
must be destroyed utterly before the final invasion of human space can
begin.
A message reaches the Black Eagles’ base, with evidence
that the father he’d thought long dead might still be alive, a captive
of the shadowy enemy, held on a planet called Eldaron. Darius Cain is
skeptical, a man slow to believe what he is told without
incontrovertible proof. But Cain didn’t build the greatest military
force in human space by being cautious or timid... and even the slightest
chance his father was alive compelled his course of action. The evidence
points to a world on the edge of human space, a highly-developed planet
called Eldaron, an insular world, ruled by a dictator who calls himself
the Tyrant.
Darius knows he is walking into a trap, but he has
no choice. He will free the prisoner of Eldaron... or he will extract a
vengeance beyond anything the Eldari can imagine in their worst
nightmares.
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