<p>For the first few years Rick Galloway and his band of mercenaries were doing well just to survive. They’d been swept off a hilltop in Africa by a flying saucer and deposited on an alien world where the other inhabitants were human—but from various and unfriendly periods of history all collected by flying saucer raids.</p><p>Rick has faced facts: this place is going to be home permanently. To create a safe society for themselves and the families they are gradually building they need to do more than just survive; they must convince the others that a unified peaceful society is better than a collection of warring tribes. Force would not be Rick’s chosen method of persuasion but on a planet where the other dominant culture is one brought straight from ancient Rome force may be the only way.</p>