It's a tale as old as time - an orphan, a slave, and an aerospace engineer walk into a bar. Okay, maybe not a bar. But definitely into an interstellar adventure full of danger and uncertainty. Two of them are aliens, or maybe the other one is the alien. Who knows, it all depends on your point of view. Ortega is cursed with a power that's only useful to the powerful. She's spent her whole life hiding what she is, enduring every humiliation...