Iron Hooves thought his next mission was going to be a simple security detail for a delivery run and make some quick favor points for the empress, but as he left home that night and left his wife behind, the cruiser he is on gets boarded and attacked, the end result of the attack is the ship crashing off course onto a desolate planet below and making it impossible to contact anyone who can help him, and to make things worse, his cancer is getting worse as he has to use the force more and more to live, but if he dies how will his wife ever find out what happened to him, and if no one finds the ship, how will the empire ever win the war?