It's a thousand or so years in the future. The Galactic Human Empire collapsed into myth and ignominy centuries ago. Life is good, but Turchin Shelton is bored. He longs to travel, to see the stars, and now he has finally been made redundant, the only thing keeping him on his home planet of Linto is the gravity.

So, when an abandoned spaceship mysteriously floats into his home starsystem, it seems like it might offer a low budget way to explore the cosmos.

This is the tale of Turchin's comic adventure across the galaxy, in a ship that cannot remember what its original mission was but is sure that it was something important.

And, in the absence of a definitive history of the Galactic Human Empire, it might also be the most authoritative work on that topic to date.