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About the Author

Mark Oetjens was born in 1971. He grew up in suburban Chicago. As a child he was diagnosed with Dystonia, a debilitating neuromuscular disorder. Though there is no cure for Dystonia, surgeries and rehabilitation allowed him to walk with only a slight limp by the time he started high school. He received a B.A. in English and an M.A. in Anthropology, both from Northern Illinois University. As an adult a brain tumor, completely unrelated to his Dystonia, threatened to disable him a second time. Thanks to radiation therapy the tumor has disappeared. Mark currently lives in Indianapolis, IN.

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The Staff of Rahgorra

Another time, another galaxy.

It is a time of relative peace. The Territory Wars that resulted from the fall of the Trubar Empire a thousand years earlier have long since ended. The galaxy has been split into a dozen or so large and countless smaller nations.

Unfortunately, in some nations crime and corruption run rampant. The crime lord Thrull has ambitions that go beyond ruling the underworld in a single corner of the galaxy. To this end he has begun building his own private Armada. He has also secretly begun to search for the Staff of Rahgorra, a weapon of mythical power.

Thrull’s activities have not gone unnoticed. The Galactic Security Bureau, peacekeepers of the galaxy, has managed to place a single, untried agent within Thrull’s organization.

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