Life aboard the ship is growing complicated, while the planet Barlow looks like a powder keg with a burning fuse. Is even the orbiting highdock safe?

The planet Barlow looms, and things are looking sketchy there -- but is the real danger outside the ship...or inside?

Ejoq is making progress with Gunnery, but not everyone seems pleased...while the ship reveals itself to have a very expensive problem!

Ejoq works hard to pull Gunnery online -- but maybe he should work harder making friends!

Ejoq meets the passengers and crew, and learns a few surprising details about Grizzelda's past!

Ejoq has an interview, and gets hired aboard the tramp freighter, Grizzelda, as a replacement gunner. It's just a milk-run to the planet Barlow...so why is everyone so upset?

A funny man has a stark reminder of his serious past, and is forced to examine the choices he made.

An emergency wake-up from cryogenic sleep drops Ejoq in the middle of trouble. With a wicked freeze-tube hangover, a boat packed to the bulkheads with passengers (yet strangely empty), and a shady crew that knows far more than they're telling, he has to hit the deck running -- or, at least, shuffling -- before a trio of armed vessels, waiting in ambush, cuts them all to pieces!

A Stardrifter short story.

A sixteen year old girl, living on a space station with her aunt and uncle, finds herself at the crossroads of her life. A coming-of-age tale, set among the stars.

PART THREE: INCOMING

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!