The Sorceress Of Karres

As Captain Pausert had often had occasion to observe, life just wasnt fair Hadnt he with the help of the notorious witches of Karres, of course outmaneuvered the deadliest of space pirates and eliminated the threat of the Worm World as told in The Witches of Karres, after which, at the least, he deserved some time off. No such luck, though, as the Empress herself sent him on a secret mission to stop the nanite plague, but an enemy had somehow convinced the Imperial Fleet that he was actually a wanted criminal, so after a battle leaving his ship in urgent need of repairs all three of them joined an interstellar traveling circus dont