During the Dakar-Markabian War, the prosperous planet of Dakar was devastated by the Markabian fleet. Its surviving inhabitants, having suffered defeat, were forced to move to another star system, to a planet to which they gave the name New Dakar. It is not surprising that all subsequent generations of forced migrants carried deep in their souls a black hatred of those who deprived them of their homeland. And the Dakar mercenary Dietrich Kessler was no exception to this rule...