You are a Brig — a Brigadier stranded on planet Idronis after a Planetary Lockdown was imposed centuries ago for reasons no one will explain. Unable to continue in interstellar piracy and general tomfoolery, you tried selling deep-fried bug legs. It did not last. New intel suggests the Lockdown might be liftable — and someone knows why it started. Navigating the chaos alongside a police department that also governs, a techno-crustacean fleet under the self-proclaimed arch nemesis Admiral Jerkface, and the increasingly concerning Boombugs who have taken up blood sacrifice, this is going to get complicated.