Hein Kim, AKA Quicksilver, AKA Jade, AKA a whole bunch of things has a bone to pick with the governmental regime of the United Earth Republic. Unfortunately, the UER has a bone to pick with him, too, and they have more guns. If he's to survive to take revenge on the UER for the execution of his parents, spies during the failed Lunar Revolution years before, he'll have to trust Rose, a competent but struggling smuggler based out of the last independent country in the universe - the former penal c ... more »

Hein Kim, AKA Quicksilver, AKA Jade, AKA a whole bunch of things has a bone to pick with the governmental regime of the United Earth Republic. Unfortunately, the UER has a bone to pick with him, too, and they have more guns. If he's to survive to take revenge on the UER for the execution of his parents, spies during the failed Lunar Revolution years before, he'll have to trust Rose, a competent but struggling smuggler based out of the last independent country in the universe - the former penal colony of Artemis.

Before Jade can think twice, he owes Rose a life debt and he's on her spaceship, sitting right on top of a load of smuggled contraband, on his way back to Luna with the other members of his revolutionary cell sitting in prison. Not exactly the way he intended to achieve his objective - capturing terraforming technology from the UER able to turn Luna into a livable planetoid instead of the barren rock that lost the war. Rose doesn't put great stock in revolutions - her biggest worry is the imminent death of her sick uncle, her only supporter in the city of Artemis, where your reputation is your only currency.  Less