Jack's search for information about his family leads him to the ruins of a Dyson Array in a remote star system, where he makes a shocking discovery: nearly a thousand people are still alive, abandoned by QuantumGrid Corporation three years earlier after a devastating pirate attack.
Stranded on the broken fragments of what was once humanity's greatest engineering marvel, the survivors have endured unimaginable hardship. With failing life support systems, dwindling food supplies, and no hope of rescue, they've been slowly dying whilst QuantumGrid wrote them off as an acceptable loss.
But Jack isn't just any courier pilot. Together with his AI companion Aggie, he possesses advanced technology and an unshakeable determination to help. As he explores the shattered array, Jack discovers something extraordinary hidden within the fragments: the scattered components of Project Starling, an experimental miniaturised Dyson sphere prototype that could provide unlimited clean energy.
The task seems impossible: unite fractured communities that have been isolated for years, navigate the deadly politics between rival factions, and somehow convince nearly a thousand traumatised people to trust a stranger with their lives. On Fragment Omicron, three warring groups maintain an uneasy truce. On Fragment Theta, former raiders led by the pragmatic Commander Reika struggle to maintain order. And on Fragment Alpha, Administrator Chen fights to preserve the last vestiges of corporate structure whilst resources run dangerously low.
As Jack works to assemble the Starling prototype and secure funding for a massive evacuation vessel, he must broker peace between former enemies, outmanoeuvre corporate agents, and race against time before the array's life support systems fail completely. But his greatest challenge may be keeping the revolutionary technology out of the wrong hands – because others are watching, and they want what Jack has found.
Meanwhile, across the galaxy, whispers of a mysterious figure known as "the Jackrabbit" begin spreading through communication networks. Stories of impossible rescues, advanced technology, and a courier ship that appears where it shouldn't. Corporate intelligence agencies take notice. Surveillance networks activate. And somewhere in the shadows, powerful people begin planning their next move.
The evacuation of the Dyson Array will save nearly a thousand lives – but it will also mark the moment when the Jackrabbit legend emerges from hiding and into the crosshairs of the megacorporations that rule human space.
Freedom has a price. And Jack is about to discover that becoming a legend makes you dangerous enemies.