The starship crew was stuck on a planet where the well-meaning schemes of social engineers had created a nightmare of battling gangs. So they pretended to be the Royal Legions from a distant star kingdom pursuing an all-powerful villain hiding on the planet. Things went better than they could have hoped, and the planet was rapidly becoming civilised...and then the real Royal flagship showed up. They thought they were doomed - but instead they had shown just the type of initiative and intelligence that the new arrivals were looking for. So they were inducted into the Interstellar Patrol. And that was just the beginning...
- ISBN10 0743436008
- ISBN13 9780743436007
- Publish Date 25 March 2003
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Baen Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 448
- Language English