pstrongArianrhodstrong Book One of The Pirates' Web. The emPSS Arianrhod emis one of a fleet of independent trading ships operated by motley crews of merchant spacers that fly under the common flag of the Trades Alliance and tend to drop anchor in the Web, that home away from hell that is the vast network of docking, repair and marketing facilities around the free port of Merkat Three in galactic zone Alpha. But emArianrhod'sem risky trade out in the space lanes of the charted galaxy is getting riskier attacks on shipping are increasing, vessels and crews are being ruthlessly taken down and stations and planets are being targeted by new bullies on the block who seem intent on annexation and mass destruction. With their living to get and their lives to get on with, Captain Ahxenta and her crew find themselves commandeered by the military, in the middle of a war that has little to do with them and in possession of information that seems to be enough to make them the prime target of some