As an employee of theSolar Trading Company, Major Janas had been on an intelligence patrolfor ten years, gaining information for Altho Franken, his boss andPresident of STC.And it had been worth it. Because Janas wasbringing home vital and secret information about the strength of theforces brought together by General Kantralas, leader of the Alliance ofRebels, an alliance that had been formed over a period of forty yearsand had already had two major battles with the government of thegalaxy—Earth’s Federation.The Solar Trading Company had beenthere to pick up the pieces—and STC was still there, not for theAlliance and not for the Federation, either. STC was still there—to keepcivilization going after the governments had battled it out.The information Janas was carrying was vital to the role STC would need to play in the coming conflict.And suddenly he found no one would listen…