Gene Starwind and his partner Jim Hawking run a small business on the backwater planet of Centinel 3. But all that changes the day that Hilda hires them for a bodyguard job. Now, thrust into a mystery they don't fully understand, they're on the run from the cops , the pirates, an angry alien, and a mysterious assassin. But they've got one thing going in their favor. They have the galaxy's most advanced ship!