Lots of internal Federated Suns politics, 'Mech fights short and sweet Solaris VII battles. One of Stackpole‘s better novels and a good one in the series. When Kai, Victor and co were introduced, I didn’t like them at all. Now, they’ve grown to adult characters who know what they’re capable of. The shadow of the FedSuns civil war is becoming visible. I like it, it’s on the list of non-skippable books.