From the back cover: The Solomani have the skull and crossbones... The Vilani have the flaming eye... - both the dreaded symbols of villainous piracy! In an unprecedented move, the worlds of Vland Domain, refusing the "radical policies of emperor-ad interm Lucan," have declared their independence from the thousand-year-old Imperium. From the introduction page: Two Campaigns for MegaTraveller The campaigns in this book are presented using the cinematic nugget format. Campaign 1: Search and Rescue - Concerned with the extraction of an Imperial intelligence agent from the restored Vilani empire, the main setting is Vland sector. Campaign 2: Gamgilebo Incident - Concerns the search for two missing starships and their crews in the Vargr Extents.