Nine Lives, Zero Paperwork

A cat hits a spaceship viewport. In hard vacuum. Completely calm. Mouthing: "You missed the turnoff."

It gets worse from there.

Cargo hauler Jarik Venn just wanted to deliver freeze-dried rations and avoid toll stations. Instead, he rescued a reality-warping cat from the vacuum of space, became wanted in nine sectors, and accidentally destroyed a government starship with a weaponized hairball.

The cat's name is Brentley. He's a pathological liar, an escaped familiar, and possibly the most want...