In the last 12 hours, Mira Harlan has lost her ship, her crew, and what's left of her sanity.First, a group of heavily armed interstellar exiles emerged from hyperspace on a collision course for her battlegroup. Then, Captain Aloysius Martin revealed not only his membership in a secret society dedicated to stopping the next transgenic war before it starts, but also the existence of a centuries-old super mutant on board-the very same kind of extrasolar human running amok on her ship.But when Captain Horace Kolodziejski branded her a traitor and tried to blast her out of space, the aliens she was just shooting at gave her an unlikely chance at survival-become one of them, and save the human race from itself!