If you want to live, Mei, it's time to get off the prison planet. Young Mei Hsiu Chen finds himself on the prison planet Yama after being deported from Fairyland in the wake of the bloody invasion and re-christening of that planet (as Caernarvon) by the Windsors of Alpha Centauri. After he establishes himself there as the kingpin of the largest criminal organization among the convicts and slaves dumped in Yama from other conquered planets, Mei learns of new plans by the forces of Alphan power, including the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Adolph Peatbogg, to put all his illicit empire, so painfully built, under their own control. Do teenage refugees have any other alternatives than to submit to superior force? The AI Uprising on Pandora! Subterfuge!Can the Alphans be outsmarted, brought to their knees by an outcast with no more than intelligence and a burning desire for revenge, and will his friends become mere collateral damage in the struggle he sets in motion on the concentration camp the Windsors call a colony? Folk singing Merchant Marines!Loyalty unto Death (& beyond)!Is escape from this Hell or Victory even possible?No thinking human can be held down.