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Avery Asteria was far from having anyone's dream job. Family circumstances had him drop out of school and flying around the expanse of space looking for treasure among the discarded trash in an old ship his father had been restoring. It was far from glamorous work, but it was all he could do to earn the money he needed. 

He was not the only one looking for fortune among the stars, though. One day a score that looked too good to be true led to a run in with a band of pirates. With some quick wits and a bit of luck, Avery managed to escape the worst, but he ended up missing out on collecting the valuable salvage he had his sights on.

Having lost a large chunk of his gear in his flight from the pirates, Avery seemed to be truly at the end of his rope. However, a twist of fate led him to discovering an experimental vessel that had been lost to the far reaches of space.

With this new ship in his possession, his prospects were looking up. It had everything and more than what any spacefarer could want. And Avery was going to use it to become the leader of the greatest band of mercenaries in the galaxy.

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The sight before him nearly made Avery lose the contents of his stomach. And he was not the only one. Veteran mercenaries they may have been, but even Kasandra, Kaiden, and Ezra looked sick after just a single glance into the enemy cruiser's mess hall.

Everything was covered in viscera, and a thin pool of blood had formed on the floor.

It was obvious that the people that had been here blew themselves up. Instead of being captured, they had taken their own lives and erased almost any means of identifying them.

Unless some of them had their DNA stored in some database, no one would be able to figure out who they once were. And even that would be a massive undertaking considering the carnage.

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