Synopsis: It was to be the first great galactic expedition. Nineteen days later, only one passenger was alive. His survival was the most significant event of the twenty-second century... Sixteen-year-old Simon Barrow was branded an intruder, and sentenced to death on the asteroid Mercator, an infamous prison for the condemned. In this desperate colony of thieves, murderers, and anarchists, Simon Barrow came to lead a new force of elite combatants—the Duelists. Their first mission: liberation from Mercator. Their second: invade the future with a vengeance...