FIVE AGAINST ONE

It was supposed to be just another exercisea Star of light Mechs against one assault Mech. Jackson is a ristar cadet in Clan Smoke Jaguar, renownedand enviedfor never losing a battle. The five cadets beneath him in the rankings plan to hand him his first defeat. But the training goes terribly wrong, and before the day is over, there are winners and losersand one cadet will not survive the day.

That training exercise sets in motion a chain of actions that encompasses both events that occurred decades earlier, and those yet to come. Now a full MechWarrior, Star Captain Jackson searches for answersboth about his past, and what had happened that fateful day. But what he learns are secrets that threaten to upend his entire lifeand make him reconsider what it means to be a Smoke Jaguar