Captain Anna Cyborn is a A58 Clone-Cyborg and her manipulated birth means she has to fight hard to be accepted by the International Space Command. ISC politics and bigotry creates The Dark Matter Corps for her and, to her dismay and embarrassment, she finds herself the Commander of a glorified space probe and a crew with less than perfect service records. As they embark on their first mission, Anna is determined to prove herself, her ship, and her crew have the right stuff to be the pride of the International Space Command.