The Progenitor Clause

A routine customs scan just flagged you as the rarest genetic event in the galaxy: a living Progenitor template, the seed from which any dying species could rebuild itself. Six empires answered within hours. Their commanders cannot hurt you, threaten you, or take you by force; the genome only works if you choose freely, and the treaty makes you the one untouchable person on Concord Station. Everyone else aboard enjoys no such protection. A violent, darkly comedic space opera where six monstrous commanders court you politely and murder each other creatively, a death cult wants you gone, and your biological clock is the most classified number in the galaxy.