The station dispatches a rescue ship to deliver fuel and oxygen to the stricken shuttle, and grants them permission to set down at their facility. Their fortunes miraculously turn around when their calls for help are answered by a remote research post on the jungle planet Bunda. With their short-range shuttle out of fuel and their oxygen supply dwindling, the trio solemnly await their inevitable death. Meanwhile, Colonial Marine Lieutenant Kat Lara, convict Martin Jess and technician Brian Ellis, the three survivors of a disastrous Berserker mission on the space station DS 949, drift aimlessly through space. Devastated and alone, Machiko elects to leave the Yautja and rejoin her fellow humans at the first opportunity. The clan's leader, Top-Knot, organizes a fight between Machiko and Shorty to determine which of them will partake in the next Hunt Machiko acquits herself well, but when one of the watching Yautja surreptitiously intervenes, she is defeated and subjected to further shame, losing her Blooded rank.

One individual in particular, whom Machiko nicknames ' Shorty' on account of his diminutive (for a Yautja) stature, harangues her at every opportunity. Instead, her clanmates refuse to acknowledge her as an equal and undermine her attempts to integrate herself into their culture at every turn, ignoring acts of bravery and skill that would be honored in any Yautja. However, after a year with the clan, Machiko is becoming increasingly frustrated with her life with the Yautja, having discovered the rest of Dachande's race lack his forward-thinking and willingness to accept an alien being as one of their own. Plot įollowing the destruction of the human colony on Ryushi, survivor Machiko Noguchi is living and Hunting with a Yautja clan, having earned the respect of Dachande before he died on Ryushi and being Blooded by him as a result. And between them stand four brave warriors in an all-out war between the galaxy's most savage lifeforms - a war nothing human can survive.

Fearsome Predators are heading fora showdown with a ferocious colony of Aliens. Company hit-squads are already moving in for the kill. Yet on the swamp planet Bunda, they must join in a desperate fight. They are being set up by a ruthlessly ambitious Company boss who will stop at nothing to silence them forever.Īn outcast human Hunter and a trio of bug hunters. Meanwhile, Jess, Lara and Eliis, remnants of a bug-hunter team that wiped out an Alien infestation in a Company space station, know too many secrets to be allowed to live. And the fierce warriors of her Hunting band are tracking her. She ran with the Predators until her human ingenuity marked her as an outcast. Machiko Noguchi lived for the thrill of the Hunt.

WHERE ONLY THE FITTEST SHALL SURVIVE, HUMANS STAND THE SLIMMEST CHANCE OF ALL.

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