Note: This story is finished and is terrible. By the year 3126 man had finally colonized the stars. Giant starships capable of traveling through subspace made zipping to distant solar systems possible in a matter of weeks instead of hundreds of years. Nathan Rainer is a Magister for one of the outermost factions or the human empire. A Magister is a civilian soldier with ties to a single ship or person and functions much like a mercenary. Rainer has a dark past that causes problems with the people around him. While his known past is dark and mysterious, the truth is far more sinister. Rainer is a man who survived a nightmarish fate and must battle the scorn of his peers as well as his own memories.