Two designers hijack a spaceship to join some space pirates-only to discover the pirates are hiding from a malevolent AI. Today they need to outwit the AI if they want to become listed on the pirate crew-and survive long enough to enjoy it. Adda and Iridian are newly minted technicians, but are unable to find any function in a solar program ruined by economic collapse after an interplanetary war. Desperate for employment, they hijack a colony dispatch and intend to sign up for a famous pirate team living in extravagance at Barbary about Barbary Train station Station, an forgotten shipbreaking place in deep space. However when they occur there, there is nothing needlessly to say. The pirates aren’t surviving in luxury-they’re hiding within a makeshift bottom welded onto the station’s outside hull. The artificial cleverness managing the station’s security system has gone mad, aiming to kill all station citizens and shooting down any ship that tries to leave-so there is no way to avoid it. Adda and Iridian have one chance to earn a location for the pirate team: eliminate the artificial cleverness. The last engineer who went against the AI fulfilled an untimely end, and the pirates are taking bets on how the newcomers will expire. But Adda and Iridian plan to beat the chances. Which glorious potential in piracy.only if they are able to survive long plenty of.