Hard military science fiction: remotely controlled combat platforms, giant O’Neill colonies, battles in open space and on the surfaces of planets. A story of a world where a young officer learns the cost of honor and loyalty firsthand—and is confronted with the betrayal of those he considered family; where corporations run everything and human life is nothing more than expendable material. And of how he makes a seemingly impossible decision: to go against the system to save his beloved and survive, while the entire world is hunting him.