By 3172, Omnibus Industries owns everything worth owning, The Government is a computer, the cost of living has been outweighed by the cost of dying, and whispers of revolution span the deepest sectors of the Milky Way - pretty much business as usual for the last six hundred years. Unfortunately, Henry Wallace has not been around for the last six hundred years; not even the last thousand. Henry Wallace has been dead, cooling his heels in cryogenic stasis, and racking up holding fees all the while. Even more unfortunately, no one seems content to leave him that way.When Henry is 'liberated' from his stasis by a crew of upstart smugglers, he finds his new life among the stars to be anything but liberating. Joined by the brusque Captain Tachinka Samson, the reformed Government auditor Ressin Jaeg, and the misanthropic onboard computer personality, Henry becomes the perpetual voice of anachronistic unreason in their struggles against an oppressive, corporate regime.United by a synchronicity of ambition, Henry, Tachinka, and Ressin push forward on their glorified delivery mission to transport a cargo of cryogenically frozen debtors out of Government space. Stymied at every turn by bureaucracy, red tape, good old fashioned mechanical malfunctions, and those pesky morals, Henry and his cohorts soon discover that a life off the grid only works as long as you don't plan to make any money.With Government agents close on their heels, and the grinning face of the revolution beckoning them over the border, our heroes are forced to reconsider their positions. Just how much effort is a goodwill mission worth? How much property damage is Omnibus Industries willing to ignore? Who in the galaxy DOESN'T belong to a clandestine organization? What's so bad about owing everything to the company store, anyway? The answers are few and far between, but speculation is hardly lacking.
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