At the beginning his first adventure, Keith T. Maxwell joins the Terran Space Fleet as a mercenary and quickly emerges to become a key figure in the hard-fought war against the Vossk, an aggressive race of insectoid aliens, whose long-lasting feud with the Terrans is far from being settled. During his service under the honourable Admiral Smith, Keith makes the acquaintance of and falls in love with the charming lieutenant Christine Hammond. But in a galaxy torn apart by turmoil and deceit, tragedy and romance are two sides of the same coin and hence the Vossk, as well as a number of other dubious characters such as the devious space criminal Vlad Borsikov, try everything in their might to make life as hard as they can for the two intergalactic love birds…