For the past few years, I’ve worked as a waitress in two shifts to save up for my dream—but I’m forced to hand over my entire paycheck to my stepmother. One fine day everything changes when a delegation from the Space Fleet arrives on my planet to recruit new applicants. As you’d expect, they turned me down for admission to the prestigious main campus, but offered me a place at the border outpost—on the back side of the Federation, where there’s no infonet coverage and there are constant magnetic storms. I don’t know what’s wrong with that place, but I’ll sort it out in everything.