Welcome to the Ares Belt Behold Grayview Clinic, where a man explodes through a window like a missile. Behold Duplicity Developments, where life and work stretch generations. Behold Rademann Technologies, whose weapons leverage the Universe's exotic forces. Behold Rubber Brain, where mankind collaborates with a strange alien species. Behold the Long-Distance Probe Tunnel, which leads humanity across the galaxy. Behold Jasper Redds, a mysterious red ripster whose course leads through the Ares Belt in a curious case that threatens the last free system in the Galaxy.