They enjoyed the brief moments of sunlight so rare on this tempestuous world.

For tens of millions of years, the legendary monastery asteroid of Onapariah had been there all along amongst the debris...

They were grateful to be gone at last.

The generals were wrong. Very, very wrong.

The Sky Ring warped under the influence of the shepherd moon.

The murders went unnoticed as the starliner gently drifted through the billowing clouds of the skyring.

They made their getaway in the stolen sports ship but they wouldn't get far.

Once again, the generals had been wrong.