It was said to be an easy work: come across the Dark Celebrity Trend Starships, destroy them, and go home. But a booby-trapped vessel decimates the Meridian Alliance fleet, departing Serengeti-a Valkyrie course warship having a sentient AI brain-on her very own; wrecked and left behind in an clear expanse of space.

On the advantage of total failure, Serengeti thinks only of her crew. She herds the survivors right into a lifeboat, intending to sling them into space. But the get away pod sticks in her belly, locking the cryogenically freezing crew inside.

Then a scavenger ship arrives to pick Serengeti’s bone fragments clean.

Her engine’s dead, her guns long silenced; Serengeti and her last two robots must find a way to fight the scavengers off and save the staff trapped inside her.