The asteroid belt is not neutral ground. Miners work claims they don't own, corporations write the laws they profit from, and the Space Patrol Organization maintains an order that suits no one but itself.
When a routine dig on Asteroid QX-421 uncovers something that shouldn't exist, the discovery sets off a chain of events no institution is prepared to contain. A debt-ridden pilot. A mining captain who breaks her contract to answer a distress call. A sergeant who disobeys orders to save a planet. A young ensign aboard the most advanced ship ever built, bound for coordinates no one will explain.
They do not know each other. They are not supposed to.
And somewhere beyond Pluto, something has been waiting.
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