在公司暴政和深空作战的严峻未来,塞缪尔·希斯特(Samuel Hyst)作为一名工厂工人,忍受着自己的生活,不敢梦想在污染的工业星球贝恩6号(Baen 6)之外的生活。当他年轻的妻子苏拉透露她怀孕时,一切都变了。现在,塞缪尔面临着一个残酷的现实,他的孩子将出生在与他一样的债务奴役中。塞缪尔和他最好的朋友本·武田决心为他的成长中的家庭创造更好的生活,他们签约参加了一名海上救助人员的危险生活,这名海军救助人员是一次军事化深空行动的步兵。In a grim future of corporate tyranny and deep space combat, Samuel Hyst has endured his life as a factory laborer, daring not to dream of a life beyond the polluted industrial planet of Baen 6. Everything changes when his young wife, Sura, reveals that she is pregnant. Now Samuel is faced with the harsh reality that his child will be born into the same debt servitude that he was. Determined to create a better life for his growing family, Samuel and his best friend Ben Takeda sign up for the hazardous life of a salvage marine, the foot soldiers of a militarized deep space operation.
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