On the outer fringes of civilatin, a lone military force struggles to keep the peace in a volatile star system. With no incoming communcations from the Confedration Empire as guidance, olny the Legion can stop a grasping tyrant from expanding his territories... The dual sytem of Larix and Kura is controlled by dictator and self-styled Procector Alena Redruth, and he now has his eye on the Cumbre system. His spies monitor the Legion's activities, but information can flow both ways. -- back cover.