Commander Seigfried Schmidt, Imperial Ironfist Squadron Leader, vanished with his ships while on convoy duty bound for Araby. Since then there have been unsubstantiated reports of Imperial Renegades wreaking havoc from the Sea of Claws to the Great Western Ocean. How many of these stories is true is unknown, but the prospect of Imperial turncoats fighting against their former comrades has greatly angered and embarrassed the Emperor Karl Franz. There is a reward of a promotion, glory and gold for the man who brings the Emperor the head of Seigfried Schmidt![1a]