Paradigm-shifting technology. A mysterious enemy. Petty buraucracy. Volya Frye is no stranger to the circumstances, so why does it seem that everything is going wrong? After responding to a call for help from their friend Roland Kendrick, Frye and his wife Alainn can't even make planetfall before they have the Planetary Union Marshal's Service breathing down their necks - and things only go downhill from there. In addition to the job falling apart, the entire Union seems ready for revolution. Will Volya and Alainn get caught up in a civil war? Or worse - will they help cause it? "False Flag" brings "The Union Chronicles" to a close with a simple concept: everyone makes mistakes; the good ones make it right.