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The secessionist light cruiser Pompeius Magnus is the last survivor of her squadron - torn to pieces in a disastrous strike on their oppressors' home system. Her primary weapons are gone, her engines are wrecked, life-support is on tertiary backup, and more than half her crew are dead.Commander Delaney is a lifelong pilot, a veteran who has repeatedly refused promotion so as to stay in the fight. Lieutenant Shan is an activist turned wartime spacer motivated by a fanatic's fire.Orders are orders. It doesn't matter that Earth's defenses have been designed to stop fleets, let alone single ships - let alone crippled ones.They're going in anyway. And they will change history.