Inside a galaxy where in fact the fabric of reality can be bent and shaped by a privileged few, and nearly every skill desired is a mere injection away, one young man is thrust in to the combat of his life.

Tane, a hydroponics farmer with some mad cereal crop gene-splicing abilities, decides to obtain chipped. The operation gives him full control over his autonomic anxious and endocrine systems, plus the ability to install custom memories.

All seems well until a couple of days later aliens come knocking at his door. And they aren’t the friendly type.

Soon Tane sees himself on a frenzied flight over the galaxy with a female who are able to warp the very fabric of spacetime, her bodyguard-who’d just as soon wipe out Tane than protect him-and a starship that calls him snarky family pet names. He’s on the run not simply in the aliens but the whole damn human space navy.

He just wished he knew why. Unfortunately for Tane, the response might just kill him. Not to mention the complete known universe.