AstraVantis

Ashiro Taki joined the Core because it was the last place anyone would think to look for him. The Core spared no expense on his upgrades. They rebuilt nearly every part of him, right down to a new hand with sensors glowing red beneath the skin so he can feel everything.

After a short recovery, his platoon shipped out for AstraVantis, the biggest colony on the Moon. Crime syndicates have the run of the place—that was the briefing, anyway. Ashiro hates it up there, not quite as much as Base City, but its close.

The Moon is where he lost his family, and his brother never came home from it. Since the platoon landed, Ashiro has done everything he can to avoid thinking about him. He doesnt know if his brother is in AstraVantis, but the biggest crime bosses on the Moon operate there, so where else would he be?

Down in Base City, Police Captain Kahn is twenty hours into his shift, riding a lift up the side of a corporate tower where a young man is standing on a ledge several hundred stories up. Hes the son of one of the corporations board members. Kahn finds something he cant ignore. Pulling on it takes him places a police captain has no business going, and it starts costing the people who help him.

The chief keeps calling to remind him how sensitive this case is. Kahn is starting to wonder whos been calling the chief.