Panic ensues when the people of Ewin start dying. A bacteria, the scientists say, is spreading exponentially, and the survivors desperately seek refuge on the only place possible, a visiting freighter currently in orbit. Talian and Eustace find their way to the ship through the tender hauling materials into it's hold. But The Nirvana is no cruise liner, or state of the art ship-it's a hundred-year-old freighter with no room for passengers...