Fear leads a pirate crew in the Outer Reach, but an old debt draws her to Ivar, a rogue planet that should not exist, cannot exist as it does. And it's strange physics makes it a threat like she has never experienced. A world without a sun that is lighted by the vegetation, with a warm atmosphere and air and water. It has a moon that rotates around nothing, and lifeforms that defy understanding. This is a planet with secrets. And it does not like visitors, let alone settlers.

The only way Fear can leave this place, is with the help of an ancient sentient module that has attached itself to her starfighter.

HELLO, FEAR. MY NAME IS AVASKANDR, I AM THE BLACK MODULE HIDING INSIDE YOUR STARFIGHTER. MAY WE TALK?