A Cop from the Backwoods

Senior Detective Nathan Ryan was heading to work. Another day that likely wouldn’t bring any news at all. On the planetoid LV-918 Bulyzhnik, the most significant event for a long time has been a drunken miner’s brawl in the Saturday bar. A backwater is a backwater. Unfortunately, this time he couldn’t work out his shift calmly—an uncovered corpse of a girl was found, dead from a violent crime, presumably a couple of days earlier. The victim was an exotic dancer Mandy, whom Nathan knew personally. A harmless young girl—who could she have crossed?

The senior detective didn’t yet know that this crime was only the beginning—one link in a chain of events that would soon lead to full-scale military actions. And he didn’t know what role had been assigned to him in this struggle either. What can some cop from the periphery do? As it turns out, a lot. After all, Nathan is hiding some secret from his past—a secret that may become the key to the resolution of the story.