Return from the Dead — Symon Jade

The ten thousand years that have passed since the Romans threw the Christians to the lions haven't changed man -- they have only widened his arena. There are still the few powerful who rule. And there are still the millions who are ruled.

And then there is Captain Deadalus. They would call him many things -- pirate, traitor, revolutionary -- but they would never call him anything to his face. They couldn't. They could never catch him. Or his band of interplanetary outcasts who came aboard the stolen space craft to fight the forces of a futuristic society bent on total takeover. But how long can one starship last against an empire that has the entire galaxy for its killing ground?