So then, the city is ours. Put it to the sword. Leave none alive.' General Enla stepped over the bodies of Prince Angra and his wife Princess Inrin and sat down behind the huge desk. The bodies of the Prince Elect Undrus and his aide Marklin lay near the window where they had tried to escape from the marauding Sarkhagi. Once again Drachir and Tynal find themselves caught up in a war that they really don't want to be in. Along the way they pick up some strays and it takes all of Drachir's cunning and planning to overcome a nasty situation. In the other stories in this volume we meet Drachir's latest girlfriend, attend the funeral of one of his old friends, meet some very strange creatures from a distant Galaxy and get entangled with a murderous secret society. Life is never dull when The Nevis takes to space.