Cargo 3120 Ties that Bind Part 1

After a ten-year prison sentence, Marcus abandons the questionable life of a mercenary. He reluctantly returns to his childhood home and helps his sister care for her dying daughter. They plan to revitalize their family’s shipping business, to afford his niece's expensive medical treatments.

One day, Marcus accepts what seems like an honest cargo job from a former friend. However, that cargo is at the center of a galactic conflict, fueled by politics, organized crime, and a mysterious alien race; forcing Marcus to choose between the needs of his family and the fate of the Milky Way.

Part 1:

Part one of the Ties that Bind series tells a portion of Marcus’ backstory, taking place eleven years before the main story begins.

While on a dangerous mission to Titan (Saturn’s largest terraformed moon), Marcus leads an elite team of mercenaries deep into enemy territory. But when a series of events causes the mission to go south, they soon find themselves in the crosshairs of Saber Team, an elite Black Ops unit led by the cunning career soldier: Lieutenant Donald Shepard, who had been hot on their trail for years.