When Major Dam Stormdragon was chosen to serve as part of Castalia's military tithe to the Mother World he had no choice but to go - much as he loather Terra and everything she stood for. He knew that given the combination of arrogance and paranoia that Terran's displayed towards all Colonials he was at best in for a miserable year - and that at worst he would find himself taking part in a military action against his fellow Colonials. He also knew that the increasing ferocity with which the Terrans responded to the slightest balking of the Imperial Will meant that one day soon the Hub Worlds would have to fight, or that Terra's madness would destroy them all.

What Stormdragon could not know was that the Mother World was already set on obliterating her children, and that he himself would be Terra's secret weapon in the most dreadful conflict in the history of Man.  

źródło opisu: Ace Books, 1978
źródło okładki: Zdjęcie autorskie