Jericho Jones: Bounty Hunter
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Born the son of high-ranking Sovereign leaders, Jericho Jones must find his own place in this world. As soon as he was old enough to hold a rifle, his parents shipped him off to the Institute of the Sovereign Regime to round out his training and push him to join the family profession. Where his family saw all sentient life as lesser beings, he found himself strangely aroused and intrigued by them. To escape the reach of the Sovereign Regime, he stows away on a freightliner in hopes of finding a new way of life...which takes a turn for the worst, which also opens the door for his future.
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