Billions after the final Stars died out, the Devourer and its crew of pirates continues to travel across the Epak star system, eating any rival spaceship that comes across its path. After inhaling a fleet of ships tied to a crew of deserters. Aaron, the Pirate King worries that the deserters got themselves captured on purpose to finish their plan to take over the Devourer. The Pirate King's fears are only exasperated when he learns the woman in command of the deserter crew is responsible for killing his father ten years earlier. She claims to be on a noble mission to save the Coalition of Moons, a cluster of populated moons orbiting a gas giant that resides in the brown dwarf star Epak's habitable zone, but Aaron fears she wishes to complete the mutiny she led all those years ago.