Throughout the universe, no planet is as feared as Aurelion, the world where everything is for sale. Ever since the planet was purchased by the pirate Captain Flint, United Galactic Federation sessions have lapsed into apprehensive silence, as all listen to the new Aurelion representative, Senator John Silver. For no armada has yet forestalled Flint's audacious raids, nor has any ruler outrun his vengeful ships. As a sword cannot slice a shadow, so no army can defy the Captain. And unless the Federation wants things to get uncomfortable, suggests Senator Silver, they should allow Captain Flint to commission custom weapons from geneticist Dr Jumba Jookiba...

Atlantis: Atlantis has long known the secrets of riding a pillar of alchemical fire up into the heavens. Now, American expeditions ride Atlantean spacecraft they barely understand into deep space. Speeding boldly towards planets rumored to contain lost technology, they pray to evade the telescopes of Captain Flint's pirates.

Mount Olympos: We rent our bodies from Hades, we do not own. Yet the Stovetop Tyrant asks the Federation for an advance, a tithe of early death. Asphyxiation imps & starlight Titans besiege once-healthy planets. But thousands of creatures fire back in defense - one Galactic Armada uniform worn by bodies of a thousand shapes & sizes