A peacetime Navy has many roles. Presence. Protection. Preparation. Commerce. Sales. Realpolitik. A century before the Kenmiri ever touched humanity’s stars, Admiral Christopher Macleod commands the Extrasolar Squadron of the Commonwealth Space Force. His job, above all else, is to sell British military technology to the rest of humanity. The Admiral has long ago accepted his role as the pony in the Commonwealth’s dog and pony sales show—but as war between the United States Colonial Administration and the Russian Novaya Imperiya twists ever closer to neutral stars, every nation must choose what neutral means for them. And Admiral Macleod must choose what matters most to the Commonwealth’s neutrality—or the thousand-year-old traditions of Her Majesty’s Navy!