Despite the chokehold the Inter-Galactic Council had managed to put on wormhole transport, mistakes in the system still happened. Enter Clyde, an Earthborn from the 21st Century, torn forwards in time to what would have been the 31st, aboard a smuggler's ship. The ship's captain, deprived of a deal with one of the underground high-rollers in the Milky Way Sector, begrudgingly brings the American along on her quest to find the funds to repay Aregat M'Lipa, finding out along the way just how the universe's keepers treated their subjects.