OH WOW, OH WOW! I liked the gutsy Joan Shengtu who was betrayed by her so-called friends to get a lighter sentence while she was kicked out for trying to survive with her little wages that was not nearly enough when she had to PAY THEM back for her lodging! She had survived with her little ship and her AI that she called G.O.D, after all he had been her only real friend. She was caught as she attempted to steak for her client, handcuffed and put in a bare room, then she was offered a chance to make it all go away if she accepted a retrieval mission. I loved Dario Anazao who had enough sense ton not be like his parents who took their higher status for granted on the backs of the lower level men and women who could never ascend to their Supreme higher level surviving on little food and lived in dirty rusty places ( )