They called it the Star Rust war. A corporate fueled military campaign to recover wreckage from a colossal alien craft. Over-achiever U.S. Army Ranger Michael Keller is caught in the gears of greed once again, thrust into the conflict. Despite his wits, he never comes home, leaving his fiancée,' Vala, behind. Suspicious, Vala begins a trek through a world stricken with debilitating technological diseases, alien salvage mercenaries, and ruthless corporate tycoons to reveal the truth about his disappearance. But the truth is a complex matter, a revelation and reminder that echoes not just through the lives of Michael and Vala, but an unsuspecting man who had lost it all to the sins of the elitists.