Decades of use have made the Uranus station a relic of the past—but one still in use in the present. The old, badly maintained, ex-orbital station turned mining base has never attracted the cream of the crop and Dan Cantos is far from being the cream of anything. The rugged man has learned to make a living on the half-derelict station though, and he's not eager to change that any time soon.

Dan may not have much of a choice, however. Trouble comes knocking when he finds himself in the middle of an interplanetary conflict between organizations that see people as statistics, as pawns in their grabs for more and more power. What will he do as his makeshift home in Uranus slips further and further away?