Steel's First Temper: Jill 'Reaper' Repeth must complete a tough rescue mission on a Meme asteroid base while beginning to train a new protégé, Joseph 'Bull' ben Tauros.
A Hotter Forge: Bull and Reaper are assigned to capture one of the Pure Race, but a Blend throws a monkey wrench into their plan, forcing them into a no-win battle.
What Price Humanity? Vincent 'Vango' Markis awakes to find himself blind and helpless. Soon it become apparent that he and his fellow pilots are trapped in a situation with no choices and only one way out. A slightly shorter version was previously published in Jerry Pournelle's anthology There Will Be War X.