Sandy Decker had a problem. Well, multiple problems. Some good, some bad. Some pretty bad. The good problem is that she was up a whole bunch of credits and the title to an Azelia class yacht called Vagabond King. That was the good problem. The bad problem was that she was in debt to Daresh An-Jaska, Former Princeps in the Golden Legion, Grausian exile, and the biggest gangster in the sector. Not a money debt but a favor debt, one that she paid principle on doing favors in return. Dirty deeds that never seemed to pay enough, of course. That was until yesterday, when she found a line she couldn’t cross.

Today, faced with a brutal and violent death at the hands of Jaska, Sandy did what any good former spy would do. She told a story and sold a secret. Operation Marconi and the missing Terran Union battleship U.S.S. Resolute. Now it's good news, bad news.

The good news: Jaska bought the story.

The bad news: Jaska didn’t trust Sandy as far as she can throw a grat. So the mob boss put 'controls' in place to ensure her compliance. The kind that blew your head off if you didn't do the job.

Now all Sandy and the crew of the Vagabond have to do is follow a decade old trail to the Resolute, salvage the mission package for Operation Marconi, and find the objective—a secret location where the Old Empire produced their greatest weapon.