When former soldier Everett Cole signed on to help colony planets prepare for joining the Federation, his employers were vague about his duties and the allowed methodology. Reservations increased when he met his partner, Edgar Millen, an enigmatic man with a penchant for violent solutions and a fetish for the mythology and language of the American Wild West. It wasn’t until they reached the colony world of Astrild, 52 light years from Earth, that Cole learned he and Millen were agents, troubleshooters, hired guns among other labels. Their first mission was free the remote town of Justice from the control of a vicious strongman. Unbeknownst to them, they were about to step on the tentacles of an interplanetary conspiracy.