The crew of the space freighter Crossing Star are powerless to stop the great ship, loaded with an unimaginable fortune, from being swept into the gravity of Raylon-33, an unexplored planet. Captain Trope Jensen and First Officer Annie Braemar must protect a crew that includes the unknown traitor who has crippled the ship and brought it down. Attacked by space pirates, fighting to survive the beasts of a deadly planet, and embroiled in a thousand-year-old war, Trope and Annie must somehow survive.