Mary Christmas Jones, genetically-enhanced assassin and now the captain of the Uvaloothi warship, Mantis, recently received disturbing news. Several doses of it, in fact.She's been trying to overcome her upbringing by surrounding herself with good people and by leading those good people on missions that more than one of her close associates have called and "noble. and "Maybe... She had dropped a nuke on the last person who had pissed her off to the degree she is now. It would be a stretch of the imagination to call this mission noble. This time, she's out for retribution.