The battle weary Junkyard Dogs are temporarily secure in the "Scrapyard" (the United Terran Federation Reclamation Center) but supplies of food and everything else are running critically short in the huge floating spaceship junkyard... Captured terrorists reveal that yet another attack on the Scrapyard is imminent only this time the Sheik of Barsoom intends to crush the opposition with an overwhelming force of ships and men... To make matters worse, the hyperlink transfer zone between the Santana Quadrant and Sol-Terra is somehow being blocked - reinforcements from the Federation will not be coming Meanwhile, the Sheik, who has been steadily gaining power, is consolidating all of his forces at the Santana Nexus Station in preparation for something really big... Can Carlisle, Harris, Hawkins and Kresge along with a motley assortment of civilians, including a newly recruited handful of miners and colonists, somehow take on the juggernaut that the Sheik's forces have become and regain control of the Santana Quadrant? Could the Santana Nexus Station be the key?