The Pamplona Sector was in trouble. Two hundred years of consolidation wars left a small cadre of corporate elites running the sector. The Drakes and the Cordobas were only interested in maintaining their power. And the great houses within both camps had their knives out.
The Federation didn't start with a shot.
It was a man deciding to be decent when his training -even his genetics- insisted that he be a bastard.
It was a friendship between...