Captain Tyrell Hanson, or "Tyrell" to his crew, is known as a loose canon, and a force of nature. Now it's up to him and a hand-picked but untested crew to save the last ship made at Luna Colony-- and the fledgling government that sent him.

On their way to finish their retrofit, Tyrell's crew finds a ship so desperate to escape its captain destroys the ship with only a cryptic warning about the Nameless. With the Ground Patrol seeking to destroy the last survivor of the ship that exploded; a Unit; stripped of all human rights, the young man flees the terror of the Nameless with only a fairytale in his memory. In the midst of all this, a plot to destroy Tyrell's ship is uncovered.

When the dust settles, a pilot is nearly dead, another-- a friend is accused of her attempted murder, and the captain must fight to save his oldest friend from a plot twenty years in the making. With danger on every side and a sacrifice that makes everyone uneasy, the captain finds the answers of the Nameless in the dreams of the dying, and of all things, an old children's story.

Racing against time, he must give the Nameless back her name, her steel, and her purpose or watch the galaxy destroyed by a child. But secrets kept too long had marred everything, and the world, for this small crew, will never be the same.