Arek Lancer just wants to deliver his cargo and find a new cargo. A former Earth Expeditionary Forces Special Operations soldier, Lancer left that all behind to become an independent freight hauler. Hopping from one solar system to another, answering to no one but himself.He tries to stay out of trouble until one day trouble runs into him. Literally. Trouble in the form a teenage Thesan girl.Arek finds himself caught up in the mystery of The Last Child.

Arek Lancer thought his days as part of the Earth Expeditionary Forces was over. He'd left the life of a Spec Ops soldier behind over five years ago.But when his former commanding officer needs him, Lancer finds himself right back into the middle of a cold war between Earth and the Tiat Empire.The past returns with a vengeance when Lancer is tasked with assaulting a place he had been once before, an asteroid that houses a Tiat research station.He escaped the asteroid once. Will he do it again?

The game has evolved....   Eric McCaffrey has been playing Zag in the VR-MMOFPS Battlegrounds Online for a while now. The more he plays, the more entrenched into the game he gets.   It hardly even feels like a game anymore.   Zag, now one of the commandos for the Knights of the Tactical Operations Group, is tasked with freeing Punta del Muerta from the terrorist group Wyvern. Along with the rest of the Knights, Zag will dive deep into the jungles, war-torn cities, and concrete bunkers, but will he be able to complete all the missions in time?   Outside, in the real world, Eric is becoming a new man. The game has impacts on him that he's just beginning to discover, affecting both mind and body.   But is it for the better?

Arek Lancer and his freighter, the Nomad's Wind, need a job badly but distress calls from doomed planets like Storw are hard to ignore.  He soon regrets agreeing to carry refugees when a mysterious stolen artifact winds up on his ship. Recovering the artifact may cost Lancer more than just his ship.