Dead Lanes

Tade Zebo and his misfit synthetic crew are seventy-two hours away from seeing their battered salvage tug, the Rust-Jack, cut up for scrap by a ruthless syndicate creditor. Desperate for a lifeline, they gamble their last drops of fuel to pry open a sealed vault on a derelict naval courier adrift in a starship graveyard. Inside waits no bullion or platinum, only an enigmatic alien urn and a terrifying message: Please do not leave me here.

The relic houses Vaelen, an ancient intelligence torn...