Project Predator - a Nature of Predators fanfiction

Vollek has just been fired from his job as ship engineer in Venlil Prime and is now unemployed. Not having many savings left, he finds a job opening for an "Weapon's System's Officer" program sponsored by the United Nations, which he feels mysteriously attracted too, participating in it. Little did he know, he was about to be accepted into the most elite fighter squadron in the UN: The Apex Squadron, with it's mysterious and quiet leader, Mariana, being the pilot he was assigned as her officer.Across the frontline, the true leaders of the federation, the Shadow Caste, and their best pilot, Dominus, gets his team of Herd Masters ready to lead the assault on humanity and their allies. A relatively young but skillful leader, Dominus has set an example for being an ideological fanatical of the Federation Ideology, but still being compassionate and temperate to his fellow members and prey. All the while showing no mercy and untold bravery towards the enemies of the federation. He takes particular care of the youngest member of the group, Lorqon, a child Farsul he is tutoring to become the next leader.And then, there is Nartho Ria. A troubled Arxur coming from a blood lineage of elite fighter pilots and engineers in the Arxur Dominion. Lived in disbelief of his cut-throat family ways, and having no skills as neither a pilot nor an engineer, he is only alive thanks to one of the family heads, Lainai, being used as a test subject for his experiments involving fighter-spacecraft in Chief Hunter Isif's sector. He yearns for an escape, to leave everything behind, but will he escape, or will the escape come to him?