The Outskirts’ corporate world, living by its own rules, for hundreds of years has been a space ruled by the power of money. But everything comes to an end. The Law on the Rights of Sentient Beings arrives here along with a change of the colonial administration. However, the Outskirts’ corporations are not going to give up their positions without a fight—especially when it comes to the super-profits earned from extracting a synthetic drug created in the toxic waste dump the planet Vezelvul has become.