(W) Paul Tobin (A/CA) Jeff Johnson. When TerraCore - a substance able to terraform planets - is discovered, it changes the landscape of the universe... until it becomes a limited resource, giving rise to piracy and leaving planets dead in its wake. In the midst of a battle, Captain Langer crash-lands on one of those dead worlds and discovers that its straggling inhabitants are quite different from what he expected - in more ways than one..
