An adventurous youth, Bob Tehera leaves Earth to join a licensed mercenary organization called Galactic Resolutions. After acceptance into the organization, he is assigned a personal combat advisor named Ge'rasal or Grr. The PCA is a genetically engineered morph that has the ability to change shapes or colors at will and communicates with Bob using telepathy. During their adventures and battles Bob encounters strange and exotic beings. However, after meeting a Compassionate that sacrifices her life so that he may live. Bob begins to question his life choices and becomes disenchanted with being a mercenary. Then he meets an intriguing and dangerous enemy that offers an alternative, if he can survive.