The Solar System consists of the Sun, Jupiter, and assorted debris.
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke CBE FRAS 1917 - 2008
2061: Odyssey Three. 1987
The year is 2200 and Silas Lawal, a former professional rugby player from Cote d’Ivoire, leads a small specialist unit of United Nations Planetary Federal Assault Wing (PFAW) marines. They are the military arm of P-FED, the Planetary Federal Corps, a standing police service established by the UN to ensure peace and security across the globe and throughout the system, protect civilians and to investigate cross-border and intercolonial crime.
At the invitation of the Mars Senate, they investigate why many of the various criminal gangs around the Isidis Complex seem to be coalescing, and uncover a human trafficking and crime network that stretches across the entire system.
Ceres is a Technological Police State, that operates on much like the old East Germany, with networks of private security and informants. Here, the members of the syndicate believe that they are safe, protected from attack and invulnerable. Able to act as they please and behave like mediaeval barons who own everything and everybody.
With operations encompassing people trafficking, drugs, pornography and fraud on a grand scale, the prime targets of Silas and his team’s main targets in a series of missions that spans the Solar System, leading eventually to corruption in the very highest echelons of the United Nations itself.
