In this epically hysterical space opera Captain Niomi Athena is the quick-witted and fearless leader of a crew of eccentric merchants famed throughout the Quadrant for accepting missions no other crew would dare contemplate. In their most dangerous gamble yet the traders agree to travel through a wormhole and explore the dangerous depths of uncharted space known as the Dark Zone. The only catch is that explorers have been entering the wormhole for over a century but none have ever come back alive . No merchant vessel in their right mind would accept this suicide mission but for this quirky band of traders they have a habit of accepting missions no one else will. Advising Captain Athena are her two senior officers; Lieutenant Sulibar a well-mannered super intelligent lizard who prefers a high protein diet of living flesh; and Chief of Security Ronan a loveable blue coward with a genetic odor so powerful it is perhaps the crew’s most fearsome weapon. Aft