The Scavenger. Dream

An unfortunate planet abandoned at the edge of the Galaxy, Cyrrus, has long become a universal cemetery for the spoils of war—discarded starships that have outlived their usefulness. But there is also a quite thriving City on Cyrrus—only its inhabitants, the outsiders’ outcasts who live solely by whatever they can find in dead ships, are no better off for that. After all, their fate is to rummage through old scrap until the end of their days.

Nik can’t accept this fate. Nik is the son of a rejected scrap-sifter and a chance cosmic astronaut. Nik dreams of a flight to the stars, in search of planets where life isn’t so hopelessly bleak. But the road to making that dream come true is far from close…