In the bizarro version of Old Town, Dutch and Johnny continue to believe they are married and run a bar (and that Jaq is their son who was taken by the Qreshi for a better education). D'Avin believes he is a killjoy, searching for Jaq to fulfill a warrant. Pree believes that he is the company man on Westerly. Gared believes he is a factory worker escaping a prior life of crime by settling down with a woman. Zeph is a greasy haired nut, noticing and tracking anomalies and contradictions on Wester
Dutch saves Zeph by operating on her. Then, Dutch and Zeph figure out that The Lady is terraforming Westerly for those smoke box creatures and air will run out in 27 days. Zeph creates an inhibitor agent to counteract the brainwashing and uses it on herself first. Once her memories return, she forgives Dutch for Pip's death and blames The Lady instead. Johnny and D'Avin team up to find Dutch first. Dutch catches D'Avin and convinces him that something is wrong. Johnny sneaks into Zeph's lab and
The Lady tortures D'Avin, Dutch, and Johnny, until Khlyen helps them to escape. On Lucy, D'Avin wants to find Jaq, while Dutch wants to return to Westerly and destroy more factories. Systems start going wrong (thruster failures, burning experiments, overheating power source). Dutch finds a mark on D'Avin that she earlier saw on The Lady and believes he has been taken over. Johnny finds the same mark on himself and Dutch. Suspicions run rampant among the team, particularly when Lucy suggests brai
On Westerly, Zeph injects the inhibitor into Turin and Pree. Together, they find a fleet of Black Root ships that are being used to drop the brain washing rain each day. Zeph collects samples of the brain washing chemical, then she and Turin blow-up the fleet. The Lady, who is having difficulty dealing with human emotions, worries that there is an uprising in Old Town and tells Khlyen to put a stop to it. Meanwhile, Team Awesome Force are imprisoned on a high security prison ship. Johnny, initia
A Qresh family sponsored fight tournament takes over the prison. Dutch enters as a contestant and knocks out all of the other prisoner contestants, leaving her to fight the Qresh champion in her final fight. In her first fight, she bit a control chip out of her opponent, and passed it on to Johnny to do some tech stuff on the chips in all the prisoners. D'Avin is requisitioned by the Qresh sister to kill her brother. The chip plan goes awry and the team needs help from the most powerful criminal
In Old Town, at Khlyen's request, Gared switches Pree's PDF with a fake that allows Khlyen to eavesdrop. Zeph manages to mimic the brainwashing solution, then receives an encrypted message from Johnny that shares the trouble they have been in on the prison ship. Khlyen overhears the conversation and heads the armada towards the prison to save Dutch. Meanwhile, on the prison ship, Johnny finds the Warden, with a stomach wound; he helps to bandage the wound, and she, in turn, helps him and Nucy (N
Johnny, D'Avin, Dutch and Calvert go to a "militainment" (military entertainment) event on Leith, in order to use their satellite to beam a microwave to Lucy (currently in The Lady's Armada hold) in order to digitally map the Armada and (hopefully) find The Lady (the original creature that is being used to create smokey box offspring). Meanwhile, Zeph, Pree, and Turin have left Old Town and met in a safe house, where they are trying to film and analyze a smoky box offspring. Zeph recognizes the
Johnny and D'Avin run a capture the flag team building event aboard the prison ship to train X-Wing to be soldiers; things go awry when a guard and several psych patients are mysteriously killed; turns out, the dis-loyal prison doctor did it, but Calvert takes him down with the flag pole. Zeph and Dutch head back to Zeph's family farm on Leith to look at the family tapestry (which is where she saw the offspring shape as a child). They are caught breaking into the special vault where the tapestry
Aneela and Kendry appear on the prison ship and help broker a deal with the brother and sister Queshi to arm Dutch's army. Dutch wonders whose side Khlyen is on, while Aneela insists that he always fights for his family. Dutch, Johnny, and D'Avin, along with a team of prisoners mount a full-scale assault on the factory in Old Town. Zeph analyses the smoke being released in Old Town and notes that it is some kind of antidote. Khlyen is tricked by Gared into infiltrating the factory assault, and i
Dutch uses Khlyen as bait to lead the human body of The Lady to Arkyn, then Aneela raises the shield around the planet. Aneela and Kendry gather the leaders of The Nine families on the Kin Rit estate on Qresh to collect their weapons codes to attack the Armada. Aneela senses Jaq is in danger and takes a ship to the Armada while it is being firebombed. Johnny, D'Avin, and Zeph infiltrate The Lady's Armada and meet Jaq along the way. Aneela distracts The Lady, while D'Avin, Johnny, and Jaq insert