An Alliance arises and new ones form. In the far future, the world is in a golden age, commerce and trade are at a peak and there is much for the International to look forward to. Aside from a few border skirmishes that convince some of a war between the International Empire and the Non-Conformist Union, threats remain relatively low. Then, mysterious aliens known as Baroques begin to terrorize the peoples. A group of mercenaries and bounty hunters form an alliance known as the Hunter Alliance. They are called upon to fly throughout the galaxy and eliminate the Baroque threat. Only the most promising young cadets attract the attentions of the Alliance, but the road to the elite is arduous and isolated... Book One of the Hunter Alliance Trilogy