Manny Rosiaro is the president and CEO of ArmCore Securities, a small mercenary company operating out in Alliance space. ‘The Thousand Words’ the makes up the alliance is factitious and a hot bed of conflict. A perfect place for a man with a mech to make a name for himself. ArmCore has built a respectable reputation by completing small contracts such as garrison and short-term escort duty. Manny and the Rolling Rekong, his Atlas-class mech has proven themselves reliable and efficient. They have never failed a contract.   ArmCore just finished a contract and is on their way to Merkatuan, a trade world, to rest their people and to update their equipment but unbeknownst to them, an alien force is silently making its way towards the world, the first target on their conquest of human space.   Will ArmCore survive the opening salvo of aliens looking to expand their empire or would the men and women of Manny’s mercenary company burn in the flames of war?