Part 1, Page 1-34 Summary

Armor, by John Steakley, depicts the battles in which humanity is engulfed. Felix finds himself enlisted as a Fleet scout on a planet called Banshee to fight monstrous creatures known as Ants. Jack Crow, a well known rogue and thief, gets tangled in a plot of a ruthless space pirate to take control of an Earth-like planet called Sanction. The Armor that Felix wears in battle will link the two struggles and change the lives of everyone involved.

Felix is spending the last few hours before his first drop avoiding people. Felix managed to get himself separated from everyone else on the Fleet ship. The Fleet is the name of the army that has been created to fight the creatures that have waged war on the Earth like planets. The ship that Felix is on is called Terra. Terra...