A Tale Of RevengeVulcan was a factory planet, centuries old, Company run, ugly as sin, and unfeeling as death.Vulcan bred just two types of native—complacent or tough. . .and Sten was tough.When his family died in a mysterious "accident," Sten rebelled, harassing the Company from the metal world's endless mazelike warrens.Sten would have ended up just another burnt-out Delinquent if he hadn't rescued a mysterious stranger who turned out to be his ticket off Vulcan—and an express ride back!

Sten had fully expected to die in a blaze of glory, taking his Emperor's greatest foe with him. Instead he was a slave laborer in a P.O.W. camp deep in the heart of enemy territory.

But sitting out the action had never been Sten's style. And now that the war was building to a climax, the Eternal Emperor needed him more