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An alien “Ceresian” by the name of Orbit lives on a small back-water terraforming colony on the fairly remote desert planet of Eridu. He runs a small-time repair shop with his droid companion Spanner, and his childhood friend Lille Marte. One day, out of nowhere, the colony is attacked and left in ruin. Orbit and company barely escape through use of a small ship designed for smuggling. Several years later Orbit and his friends have developed a reputation as skilled mercs/smugglers, while pulling a job on an outer rim world, illegally gathering relics from a long dead civilization, the “Protokin”, the same forces that destroyed the colony on Eridu show up and begin ransacking the ruins and colonies on the planet surface. Desperate for revenge on the only home he ever knew, Orbit attempts to foil the assault, but fails. Spanner is destroyed and Lille is captured, but not before Orbit learns the identity of the group’s leader. In a desperate mission to save Lille, Orbit sets out on a.....