A pirate armada—the Crimson Fang, fifty ships strong, led by the legendary dreadnought Maw of Vengeance —blockaded the jump gate to the rich inner systems. They were after a Company convoy. Hundreds of civilian lives were in the balance.
The pirates surrendered. The convoy passed unharmed. And Kael, the miner who was nothing, sat in the heart of the most powerful ship in the galaxy. darkorbit uber protegit
A voice, calm and androgynous, filled his cockpit. A pirate armada—the Crimson Fang, fifty ships strong,
Then he decloaked.