You are not born soldiers—you become them. This principle is put to full use by a huge interstellar corporation on a distant planet. After losing elite mercenary units, they send former slaves to the surface of a hostile world instead of them. With minimal military knowledge and light weapons, they are forced to defend someone else’s interests for their own survival. They have no rights, no freedoms—only the duty to carry out orders from their superiors. One of these unwilling recruits is also a former Earthman named Max Wolf.