The Travellers become enmeshed prison politics as they attempt to make deals that will help them to escape. Kevin is pressed into assisting Assistant Warden Horus Ment.
Aboard the prison hulk known as “The Gash,” Sir Kevin has mysteriously vanished in the night. The other Travellers go about gathering information about The Gash and their fellow prisoners.
The Travellers meet for the first time at Gougeste, a “Mad Max” style planet, during a military sting operation gone bad. Six years later, they reconvene on the sector capital world Regina to pursue the smugglers that escaped the first time.