Welcome to the Federation of the Hub, an interstellar mosaic of governments and people. When ancient living biological machines suddenly begin to move after millennia of inaction many of the Hub's most powerful people and groups begin vying for the secret locked in these machines. Enter Trigger Argee, the closest associate of the man who first discovered these machines, Holati Tate. Tate has disappeared and she must find him and solve the mystery of these machines and their creators. Doing so will be no easy task as she is worth a great deal, dead or alive, to more than one of the numerous factions as the galaxy battles over the secrets these machines must contain.