Orin Hart was genetically engineered to be a super soldier his embryo implanted in an unwilling host mother who escaped the Tregan breeding program before he was born. She carried him to term and raised him with her husband to be a farmer, loving him as though he were their own naturally conceived offspring. They escaped when the Tregans came for him. Already a full grown man, they tried to make him a killer. Orin Hart never wanted to kill anyone until he saw how they tortured and murdered innocent people on the colonial worlds they raided. Only when they were about to murder an unarmed woman and a little boy did he finally raise his rifle, but he killed them instead. The woman and boy got away in a damaged hovercraft. Orin followed because he knew they wouldn't get far. He didn't know what kind of future he would have after what he had done. Now he was free, with nothing left to lose. There was one good think he could do with however long he had left. He could make sure the woman and boy would survived after what he'd done to save them. Would they accept his help? After all, he wore the same uniform as the other men who were trying to kill them? It wouldn't stop him from trying.