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They're mean, they're tough, they're highly trained and the whole platoon hope the sergeant can find someone to surrender them to.

All humanity on a hundred and fifty planets has gone to war. Some see it as a chance to make a killing in the market. Others know that the killing will be counted in billions of human lives. Mary and Mattim on one side of the battle line. Ray and Rita on the other. All looking for a way out that will let them live. If they can find it for themselves, they just might find it for all humanity.

Hurray, Peace is here! Hurray! And half the fleet is back in mothball. The other half is left to face the Drug Lords, Pirates, and Slavers out on the rim of space. And one Marine is having a particularly bad month. He's been captured by the slavers not once but twice, but the real problem is that both times, he woke up chained to the same attractive lady. And he's starting to like it.

Starship Troopers meet The Matrix on The Forbidden Planet! In a sufficiently advanced technology, can you tell the difference between a center of higher learning and a torture chamber? With a sufficient amount of explosives does it matter?

Retired Colonel Ray Longknife and Marine Captain Terrence "Trouble" Tordon come to Savannah via different routes, but what they find is the same. A bully strongman's got the population cowered by thugs, tanks at the ready, and he expects to win the coming elections without any trouble. But Mrs. Trouble—aka Ruth Tordon—has also arrived on her own mission and she isn't about to be stopped by anyone. When the tanks roll into town, the three of them are standing in their way...and nothing is going to flatten them.

Captain Rita Nuu Longknife is ready to take the heavy cruiser Exeter to space and see what's out there. She may have a nursery next to the captain's cabin, and a two month old baby on her hip, but she's taking a warship out there and nobody better get in her way.

The victory parades are over and half the fleet is back in mothballs. The Navies better start getting them back in Commission! Rita Longknife, commander of the heavy cruiser Exeter, has proof. Proof that there is something else out there. Proof we are not alone in the galaxy.