Many years before he formed the Mag Force 7 team of commandos-for-hire, Xris was a government agent, betrayed by one of his own while investigating the galaxy-wide crime organization known as the Hung, and caught in a warehouse explosion which killed his partner and left him a cyborg. Now, while the rest of the Mag Force 7 is on a mission to overthrow a small planet's despot, Xris has been set up on false charges and sent to a prison planet where he's blackmailed into helping the Hung leaders escape. But who engineered Xris' imprisonment and why? And can he find the answers without getting himself killed....