Admiral Athena Lee has barely had time to enjoy her Olympus Mons Medal of Valor, Mars highest military honor, before she is brutally kidnapped and held captive on board a ship to who-knows-where. Wilson, her trusted implanted AI, has mysteriously gone silent, and could possibly be gone forever. Athena is completely alone. Tortured by clones and threatened with complete memory loss, Athena is at the mercy of her abductors and their pain-amplifier machine. Will her engineering skills be enough this time to escape her fate? Or will Athena actually need some help from her friends this time?