Charlie Hannon spent over a year stranded on Morland without a ship. He saved everything he had to put a deposit on the Belanzano — not the ideal vessel, but it was flying and it was his. The freight agent was skeptical but eventually assigned him a cargo run: Thruster Manifolds to Kirby Station in the Grantham system. The ship has a sarcasm-modded AI called ZED that cannot be shut down or rebooted, a cascade of minor system faults, and questionable structural integrity. Charlie was not worried. Then he woke to sirens, hull impacts, and every external sensor going dark. A text-based space adventure.