Outcasts on the run.A solitary scientist hiding from the rest of the galaxy needs help to save two friends of hers: two con artists mired in lethal trouble. She enlists a mutinous soldier eluding the military and a heretical priest fleeing her order, plus ends up with a dethroned empress avoiding her former subjects. With cutthroat mercenaries called Hunters in pursuit along with the ruthless cabal who hired them, their initial rescue attempt explodes...