Curse you, kind old cat smuggler! Drupada quickly finds himself on the wrong side of the law when an outbreak of man-eating space lice in his building would see him quarantined for the rest of his known life. Barely escaping with the help of a polar bear, he finds his evil twin has already spent his life savings on a rickety death-trap she calls a ship. His only hope of reclaiming what he can of his life is a piratical adventure wrought with peril! Buxom space marshals! Accidental kidnapping! Murderous AI! (Technically) Not cannibals! The mysterious existential threat that ended the age of space piracy! Can Drupada pull together the shards of a shattered childhood dream to become a space pirate and maybe, just maybe, get a snog from the girl of his dreams? If the adventure doesn't kill him first¿