The Auster is a commercial salvage vessel that thrives in the blind spots of deep-space law. Owned by Renova Extraction, she runs the jagged edge between what is technically legal and what is actively prosecutable. Her crew is a collection of people who have run out of better options—individuals who do their jobs, keep their histories to themselves, and understand that mutual silence is the only thing that makes the ship function. In the lawless reaches of the shipping lanes, oversight doesn't exist, and corporate interests always override human life.
When Renova dispatches the Auster to recover materials from an unregistered derelict at remote coordinates, Captain Cassian Thorne takes the contract because the money is real and the work is available. But the mission is a setup from the start. What the crew finds waiting for them in the dark is not what the contract described, and the reality of the salvage operation is far more dangerous than the company admitted.
Now, in the suffocating quiet of a crippled ship, the survivors are forced into a reckoning. With no external authority to intervene and no version of the truth that everyone in the room can agree on, the crew must face the consequences of a mission gone wrong. On a ship full of people who are barely above criminal, secrets are the only currency left. As the survivors piece together what happened out there, the question of accountability becomes a desperate struggle for survival. In the deep black, where the company's reach ends and the crew's desperation begins, the truth is the most dangerous thing on board.
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