The galaxy is a strange place full of weird creatures and even weirder sentient beings. See it through the eyes of four outcasts, banished to Asteri Station on the fringes of the Hegemon Economic Alliance. Absinthe Krull--an Aquanorian with a dark past--who runs The Zoo, the bar on Asteri. Ori Bligh, a young Terran whose life of privilege has been destroyed by a stupid mistake she's desperate to put right. Zev Smith, maintenance master for...