From publisher blurb:
The people of the planet Lage have seen their world bombarded and conquered by the army of the Jorum Family. More than half of the population has died in an attempt to resist the Jorum conquest. All of the cites have been reduced to rubble. Most of the buildings are nothing more than dust. Jorum troops occupy all of the population centers and are rounding up those who resisted them. Those unfortunates find themselves in concentration camps.....or worse....they are made examples of.....
The human population of this world has seen rulers come and go. This is hardly the first conquest of this world. It might not even be the last. Lage had declared it’s independence less than a hundred years ago. Since that time, however, valuable mineral resources were discovered on this world. These were resources which the Jorum Family intends to exploit.
It is said in the ancient scrolls of Lage that a hero will come one day to free Lage from it’s oppressors. This hero shall banish the enemies of this world after a decisive battle for the freedom of it’s people. This leader will have a crescent shaped birthmark and long dark hair. He, or she (the scrolls do not state which), will become a great military genious and lead the people in a bloody revolution.
It just so happens.....that one of the travelers bears a birthmark very similar to this. This traveler also looks a great deal like the description in the legends. While passing through star port in a system near Lage the travelers are approached by Ida Sun. This young rebel is one of the few Lagians who has not yet given up the fight. She instantly notices the birthmark of one of the travelers and offers the following proposition:
Help us throw off the Jorum occupation. We need a leader to unite the people once more and destroy the conquerors of our home world. We do not have much money to pay. What we do have is the spirit to fight and the will to win. I will give you all the funds in our revolutionary fund. The amount is CR 100,000. Will you come to our aid?