Suspended majestically in space, the United Terran Federation Navy's famous Scrapyard is a gigantic cloud of battle-damaged and obsolete warships jumbled together with worn-out civilian ships and other assorted space junk...Due to budgetary restraints and materials shortages, the navy designates the Scrapyard as their new headquarters for the Santana Quadrant... The wreck of a seventy-year-old Succession War battleship is being converted into a barracks ship to house the hundreds of new personnel due to arrive shortly...The conversion stalls when a freighter hauling replacement parts critical to the project breaks down at the remote Harmony colony...With the Federation navy woefully short of ships, manpower and time, the ancient cargo ship Greyhound is tasked with retrieving the parts...Ensign Tamara Carlisle-blindsided by the sudden "opportunity"-is railroaded into commanding the retrieval mission...Carlisle's first command couldn't be more straightforward: dash over to Harmony, pick up the stranded shipment and bring it back to the Scrapyard ASAP...Just a simple milk run, right?What could possibly go wrong?