Fort Hope, Avalon, 2,000 light years from earth. The crew of the slingship 377, Cap. Boon, navigator Jojo, Doc the engineer, the Grakka Zylyn, and Daniel the newbie, guard the frontier from bureaucracy, Banshees, and good friends gone bad. When a team led by a disgraced former ranger turned mercenary called Decker gets stranded on a deadly jungle planet that's sacred to Zylyn's alien race, Boon and his crew must race against time to rescue them before the it's too late.