"Pip, pip, pop " the fireworks laugh. It seems like Elly will never get over her PTSD. When she stumbles into another dimension, none of her past matters anymore. A chilling, dystopian civilization awaits her. Much to her shock, she finds herself fitting in. Running parallel to Elly's plight is Major Kurt Pierson. He resents the new command thrust into his hands. With the previous commander gone missing, a glowing freak show of an anomaly from nowhere, low morale among his subordinates, and Venetians taking potshots at his outpost, he must get Pluto Station back on track. When Elly and Pierson finally cross paths, they must make a choice. The empire's long lasting peace depends on it.