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+|main character    = [[Vienna Salvatori|Vienna]]
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 == Publisher's summary ==
-The planet [[Mercator (Deathworld)|Mercator]]. Twenty trained assassins enter a game arena, armed only with their wits to compete against each other in a harsh environment. Twenty killers go in. One comes out.
+The [[planet]] [[Mercator (Deathworld)|Mercator]]. Twenty trained [[assassin]]s enter a game arena, armed only with their wits to compete against each other in a harsh environment. Twenty killers go in. One comes out.
-Amongst the killers is [[Vienna Salvatori]]. This is the moment she has trained her whole life for, honing her skills as an assassin to become the best in the galaxy.
+Amongst the killers is [[Vienna Salvatori]]. This is the moment she has trained her whole life for, honing her skills as an assassin to become the best in the [[galaxy]].
 As the killers are wiped out one by one, Vienna fights on in the hope of finally learning the truth about her past. In the last battle, only one can be the last assassin standing.
 == Plot ==
-Vienna resets her on-board computer to the previous setting. Suddenly, a voice overhead ends the simulation claiming that Vienna has scored just forty-three percent, much to Vienna's disappointment. She leaves the immersion pod and is helped by [[Canton Malrick|Malrick]]. Malrick plays back her adventures aboard [[Custodian (Dead Drop)|Custodian]] and with the New Church of Wonderment, claiming they have been only training simulations that have taken six months. Malrick boasts his ninety-eight percent at the same training programs. Vienna is then advised to prepare for the opening ceremony for the Tournament of Death, which is taking place in the induction hall.
+Vienna wakes up after three [[month]]s of training [[simulation]]s at the [[Assassin Academy]], including her missions to [[assassination|assassinate]] [[Jamela K'lynn]], the [[Kreyfin]] and [[Percival Kendrick]], and is given a score of only 43%. She and fellow assassin [[Canton Malrick|Malrick]], who scored 98%, listen to [[Felman Shazarel]]'s speech about the imminent [[Tournament of Death]] in which the various assembled assassins will fight to the [[death]] and are flown away in a [[hovership]]. On the journey, Vienna tells Malrick that she believes that the training simulations were based on her [[memory|memories]] as she can remember what happened following the last simulation. She learnt from her ship upon leaving Percival and [[Kendra Spendlove]] on [[Miradox]] that she had wiped her memories of [[Crevo Finn]] after uploading them to her ship's [[storage drive]] to make her more efficient and had them restored, allowing her to remember how Crevo broke in and attacked her parents when she was a child on [[Mercator (Deathworld)|Mercator]]. Whilst her father was killed, her mother was left in a [[coma]] and Vienna has been paying for her care on [[Miracle 3]].
-In the induction hall, [[Felman Shazarel]] introduces himself and the Tournament of Death, which entails a group of unarmed assassins fighting to the death until one remains. He wishes them luck and shows them towards the hovership. Aboard the ship, Vienna learns that Malrick was born on this world, growing up in the Warrior Cast and moving to the Assassin's Academy. Vienna tells Malrick that what the students have been witnessing in the simulations have actually happened to her. Malrick tries to convince her that she only thinks that due to the simulations being indistinguishable from real life. However, Vienna knows she's correct because she has memories after leaving [[Kendra Spendlove|Kendra]]. Malrick states that that would be impossible as that's the end of the simulation.
-Vienna recalls that the next thing she did was go to therapy. She recalls turning on psychoanalytic mode on her ship and excitedly telling her that she had found [[Crevo Finn]] on a planet called [[Kazbar]]. The computer informs Vienna that she has already uploaded this information to the harddrive and then deleted it, thinking it would allow her to work more effectively. This leaves Vienna confused. The computer restores her memories. During her childhood, Vienna had been living with her parents on Mercator. In her bedroom, her mother places her to sleep and through her see-through roof, she watches the ice moons before she falls asleep. She is then awoken from her sleep by the noise of an intruder, who intent on murdering her parents. Vienna is placed inside the airducts by her mother before a man enters the room. When the man asks for Vienna's whereabouts, Vienna's mother tells him that she's with her grandparents on [[Miracle 3]]. Crevo goes ahead and murders her. Finn then leaves, allowing Vienna to exit the duct. Vienna states that one day, she will find Finn and take her revenge.
-After that, she was taken to the Warrior Cast to be raised and fast-tracked to the Assassin Academy. The ship informs her that her mother is alive on Miracle 3, and that all of the proceeds of Vienna's assassinations have been going towards her treatments. Vienna recalls visiting her mother in a hospital two years prior. Her mother is wired to a machine, in a coma since the attack. Vienna refuses to forget ever again and sets a course for the planet Kazba.
 Vienna's reminiscing is interrupted by Malrick, who informs her of their arrival. Vienna and Malrick agree to a temporary team-up until the end. Malrick agrees just so that he can hear the rest of her story. A man by the name of [[Galaron Darvil]] overhears them and takes the matter personally. Vienna warns him that when the door opens, he better begin running. The Tournament officially begins. Vienna notes the numerous terrains crammed into one area. Within minutes, Darvil makes his first kill. Vienna and Malrick go off to find higher ground.