Alexander \'Sikunder\' Armstrong, seventeen and newly arrived on the colony of Samsāra, some twenty light years from Earth, learns his chosen trade in the United Nations Off-World Legion, usually with tears in his eyes and a scream in his throat. As he skirmishes with the Gliesiun Ossayuln clan against the villainous Black Hand gang; exercises his demons in the wastes of the Serberor Campus with tundra camel and three wood; or hunts for cloned prehistoric mammals of Earth\'s distant past, Sikunder is immersed in the colour, adventure, and horror of this distant colony. In the depths of his self pity, when the threat of misery and despair are at their greatest, he has an unusual benefactor or perhaps a tormentor; his decuria leader, Subedar Angus Motshwega, better known as MacShaka the Tartan Zulu.
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