Ravil is an alien with the power to jump spaceships across the galaxy in the blink of an eye. Instead of helping the ragtag Resistance fight off the Empire, she’s stuck on a backwater planet called Earth and on the run from Empire operatives who will use any means necessary to bring her under their control. To escape capture and enslavement, she teams up with Rake, a drug-addicted ex-Astronaut with nothing to live for besides scoring his next hit. Her goal is to get back to space and join an intergalactic war that Earth did not even know existed, but Ravil doesn’t have a spaceship or crew, and Rake still has to get sober enough to realize he’s traveling with an alien.

Barely making it off Seed Planet Fifteen with their lives, Rake and the crew are content to hang out and lick their wounds for a while, if it weren't for the fried wiring and Stalker damage that have left the ship prone to reoccurring blackouts. Needing supplies for repairs, the crew decides the best course of action is to raid abandoned Ampyr outposts for gear. Smart, no foreseeable problems there. Except one of the outposts they hit isn't empty, Lincoln's personality issues are getting worse, food is going missing, and their Rexos is about to hit puberty and apparently that's accompanied by uncontrollable rages. As if that wasn't enough bad news, there seems to be a sentient black hole chasing down Ravil and attempting to eat her. But not to worry, Danny's reforming their squad and apparently ranking still flies out in space. No more messing around, things are getting serious. At least seriously screwed up.

It is a dark time for pretty much everyone. The Empire has possession of half the crew in one of their heavily armed warships. Their destination is a space station where Oro and Danny are to be put to death on live television. Coming to their rescue and failing so far are the Hunters Lincoln and Kennedy, and Czar, the Cosmonaut with a hard-on for covert ops. The other half of the crew is free, but not much better off. Their pilot is in a coma. Their Navigator was last seen black hole spelunking. Their Rexos is about to hit puberty and rage out. Their bodacious ship (me) is dead in the water with internal injuries and some nasty outer hull damage. Besides that, everything is peachy…

Escaping an Empire-styled execution, the majority of the Waster crew is just looking for a break to catch their breath. After all, Marx is having severe personality issues, Darq is steadily losing his shit, and Mica is gone. Besides that though, love is in the...ventilation systems. Or maybe that's just Sammy drugging the crew... Either way, their "break" is short lived as internal issues send them careening towards an old asteroid base full of disreputable individuals with a taste for violence. Mica, meanwhile, gets an education.

It is the long-awaited homecoming for the majority of our crew. Rake and company have all-new "friends" comprised of a fleet of Hunters under Tasanee's control, and everything's going well…except Darq is on the verge of transforming into something monstrous, and the American Empire wants to capture and execute the lot of them. If they can just get a bit of peace and a chance to rescue Sammy and Nina, then surely things will be smooth-sailing from here on out. While the others contend with Earth drama, Mica is on a quest with Ipso and Reloy, and the trio has a lot to learn together. Before unraveling ancient mysteries and saving the galaxy, they have to survive their return trip to Mica's favorite place in the universe, Seed Planet Fifteen.