On Venus, phosphorus is life, and the Guild controls it.
For two hundred years the Free Stations have resisted but no one can win against the Guild’s greatest advantage – the only working quantum computer ever built – the Core.
Now the status quo is over. The Guild has destroyed Austen Station – an entire nation obliterated.
Captain Ju-lin Nakamura fought the Guild for thirty years in the Austen navy. She dedicated her life to a home that no longer exists and a fleet scattered amongst the clouds of Venus. Lost, in body and soul, she and her crew are left with two choices: to run and hide or extract vengeance.