A planet-dump. One exam to break out. One burned-out block that buried everything. And one find in a sector nobody even dares to enter—even the busted-up ones: a dead military pitboy. Forbidden. A classified report. I was supposed to turn it in. Instead, I fixed it. And the chunk of metal started talking. That’s how my story begins—the story of the most star-crazed technician in the Galaxy, and my sharp-tongued partner, assembled with my own hands.