Chapter One
THE DESTROYER Thylacine materialized from a starjump, and Commander Jas Harrington immediately leaned forward in her seat. A hologram blinked into life in front of her—a golden globe slowly spinning in mid-air, filling one-fifth of the Thylacine’s bridge. A dry, cloudless planet.
The planet’s name was unpronounceable in English, but that didn’t matter. It was one of several worlds that was home to a rich source of mythrin, the raw ingredient of the stupor-inducing, extraordinarily expensive, highly illegal drug, mythranil. As such, the world was extremely likely to have been infiltrated by the hostile aliens known as Shadows.
Infiltrated, and secured.
The Shadows aimed to cut off the Unity Alliance’s supply of mythranil so the UA’s Shadow scanners wouldn’t work and their ab
