Eddie Schiller serves on a space mining ship that extracts cobalt from asteroids. Things are getting worse: the captain dies, and the crew faces dismissal and a joyless existence. But unexpectedly, responsibility for the crew’s fate falls to Eddie. First he saves the crew from ruin; then he takes control of other ships and gradually becomes a competitor to the giant company “Ike-Metall,” without being afraid to get involved in a very real war.
Where does such drive and talent come from in a nobody boy? The answer is simple—he is the emperor’s double.