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!

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!

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!