Chapter One
May 10, 2231, Wolf 359, Remus, New Rome
Yan ducked into the alley, guns cracking loudly. Bullets ripped into the corner of the commercial storage facility right behind him.
At least, that was what it was, according to the sign he’d noticed while sprinting down the narrow space between the two buildings.
The narrow alley was wide enough for a couple of men, but there was no way his pursuers could get their hovertruck through. The decisions he made in the coming moments might help determine the fate of the UTC.
He wouldn’t die there. No, it wasn’t that he wouldn’t, he thought. He couldn’t die there.
Fear for his life didn’t enter into his concern, only fear of failing his Immortal Empress.
He would not lose his life under the false holographic blue sky of a colonial dome b
