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Reports start to come in from the isolated world of Ishtar - mysterious deaths amongst colonists point to an invasion by the alien menace, and the 34th FIST is quickly deployed. In Ishtar, they find no Skinks - instead, they stumble upon a war amongst illegal human miners and
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