Jim Rudnick

After a failed planetary rebellion, the rebel leader and his men are all given life sentences on Halberd, the RIM Confederacy prison planet....

As penance for not being honest with his admiral, Captain Tanner Scott has been sent on a boring routine maintenance mission of checking the RIM boundary buoys one after another....

After 55 years of waiting for an answer to be invited to join the RIM Confederacy, the planet Enki has responded with an alternate idea - that the RIM Confederacy join them instead....

Pirates have appeared on the RIM. They have kidnapped the passengers of many crafts and sold them into slavery, and Scott is ordered to find them and rescue them....

Taking on a new captaincy with the barony means that our captain Scott can now live a life of ease....

Infighting among the top two trader planets means more than higher prices and tariff surcharges for the planets on the RIM....

When a ship of refugees plead to come to the Barony realm for help, the Lady St. August is more than pleased to offer refuge....

Jilted by his Royal fiancee, captain Tanner Scott is assigned to Eons and the newly constructed RIM Naval Academy buildings....

After exploding with rage and injuring some Caliphate marines, Tanner is sent to the Barony Hospital ship on a 90-day observation to see if he's really sane....