The story concludes with friends who might be enemies, and enemies who are DEFINITELY enemies. Everything is what it looks like, which means nothing is what it seems!

The crew faces unknown odds, and the middle-of-nowhere is starting to get crowded. They have just one chance to save a strangely quiet merchant ship...and only half-a-chance to save themselves!

A crew of oddballs assigned to picket duty in a remote star system find their junker of a gunboat falling apart at the seams. Between bad pay, an idiot captain, and some rapidly-failing equipment, things couldn't possibly get worse. Right?