Profit Margin
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Last published Wed, Jan 14, 2026
In the aftermath of World War III, humanity has scattered across the stars - not to build utopias, but to export the same conflict, greed, and power struggles that nearly destroyed Earth.
Across hundreds of worlds, brushfire wars erupt over fuel, taxes, and trade. Corporations clash on backwater planets. Colonies revolt against distant rulers. Peace is rare. Profit is everything.
And war? War is outsourced.
Jan Blaszek used to be a soldier. Now he's a mercenary, stuck leading his squad through the chaos of a deuterium war on the colony world of Corinth. Outnumbered, underpaid, and unsupported, he'll have to navigate broken alliances, local militias, and corporate treachery - or die trying.
This is the age of the condottiere. The soldier of fortune. And business is booming.
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