The Badlands. A grim, haunted expanse of space, vast lightyears filled with dead, empty worlds. A dark place, the graveyard of an empire...and a frontier where vast riches can be had by those with the courage-and the luck-to survive. But trade in old tech is not for the timid. Prospectors face rival crews, ancient imperial security systems, and the ever-present shadow of the Union's dread spy agency, Sector Nine, as they plunge forth in search of...