As it turned out, Zayne was starting to get pretty good at setting up the pieces in the game he was playing. It started with getting a Mandalorian raiding party in the right spot. An anonymous tip to the Republic's defense ministry would get some Hammerhead cruisers to lay in wait. Zayne had no doubt one would be the Swiftsure, commanded by Admiral ( Read more... )

The planet Volgax had long ago fallen into ruin, but that didn't mean the planet was abandoned. Its population included countless Republic citizens, kidnapped in their travels or stolen from their homes. They were forced by the tattooed minders of the Crucible into one solitary enterprise: combat. Combat, armed and unarmed, against their fellow ( Read more... )

A couple minutes later, Jarael met back up with Zayne and they were in their spacesuits, leaping out after the slaves toward the comet, just before the guards on the Sungrazer caught up to them ( Read more... )