Hang out with your favourite asteroid miners, discovering how they met, their adventures and misadventures, and the truth behind the rumours.

How did Pete Garcia and Lars Nilsson meet? What adventures did they have before they reached the Viridium System? Did Lars really murder someone? Is Pete invincible at arm-wrestling? Have either ever really loved someone? Did luck or fate make them the best orichalcum miners in the galaxy?

All these questions are addressed in the Quest for Orichalcum, a memoir of your favourite asteroid miners, from before the days when instacomms enabled real connectivity through the galaxy. Before anyone knew what orichalcum was, or could do for civilisations throughout the universe. This is a gathering of tales of the men, their women, their extracurricular activities, disasters, deaths, murders, and surfing. And all before anyone but the people of Corsair had ever heard of the Perihelix.

This memoir of Big Pete and the Swede is a prequel to the Viridian System series.