In a world of plug-in personalities and colonized asteroids, daring fugitive Rebel Elizabeth Mudlark seeks refuge on Earth orbiting settlements, where evil, self-interest, and greed flourish in the vacuum of space.
Steward, a beta clone with a limited memory, realizes that in the fifteen years since his last brain scan update the Orbital Policorp has collapsed and dozens of his friends have died in an off-planet war that he somehow survived.