Blood Orbit

In "Blood Orbit," humanity grapples with an impossible war debt after a catastrophic first contact with the galaxy left Earth quarantined. Captain Kade Soren commands the Hades Bloom, a heavily worn frigate engaged in alien wars for pay that barely chips away at their monumental debt. When Kade accepts a risky job to steal a data core from a Szareen black site, he uncovers a conspiracy that threatens to expose the truth behind humanity's exile. As Kade and his crew are pursued, they find themselves entangled in a web of deception that reaches to the highest levels of the Drift Council.