Crusher teams are hired for all kinds of reasons and this latest job seemed easy: steal a cryogenically frozen terminally ill woman from a gang of criminals and transport her within thirty hours to a place where her illness could be treated. Only things go sideways when an unknown effect pulls Joe’s ship out of warp leaving him and his team adrift in space with a United Space Force battleship bearing down on them with accusations of piracy! What’s more their patient on ice their payment an