The Replacement

Lorne Kimbrel, a student and part-time short-order cook, needs money, and he needs it fast. His parents have died due to illness, and the tax department waits for no one.

In steps a man named Dass who promises Lorne a job. Lorne accepts, but when Dass opens a portal and they land on a space station, Lorne realizes that he's just become part of something greater.

His job? A cook for the scouts of the Peace Federation whose primary mission is to go to various worlds and assess them as potent...