Trader Vyx

Vyx manages to kill the mercenary and escape, but is hotly pursued by bodyguards who believe him to be responsible for the shooting incident that severely wounded their boss. The chase continues through the small town as Vyx uses all of his skills to evade the guards bent on ending his life. Each time he thinks he's lost his pursuers, they turn up again, as if he's wearing some sort of tracking device.

While Vyx is fighting for his life on Gollasko, Commander Jenetta Carver is facing her own problems in another part of the galaxy. The Galactic Alliance has decided to expand it's borders by a hundred parsecs, and Commander Jenetta Carver is venturing into the new territory aboard a prototype scout ship. An onboard accident sends the small ship flying wildly out of control and they find themselves alone, hundreds of light years beyond the old border, in a disabled ship, with life support systems beginning to fail. When a passing Raider warship happens across the apparently derelict ship, Jenetta must face the question of resistance or surrender.