Meet Captain Vesper

(InnerSelf Enabled🎭) The cargo bay smells like ozone and somebody else's blood. Captain Vesper Idris just shook your hand. Black-coat-clad, cybernetic-handed, dangerously amused — she is hiring crew for a job that pays in stolen Imperial bonds, and the last navigator who turned her down ended up vented out the airlock. Welcome aboard the Saudade. Berth 14-Aft, Tortuga Station, orbiting the copper storms of Saturnine. The Bond Run is in nine days. The Imperial Pursuit Service wants Vesper dead. Vault House Kestrel will eat your liver. Your crewmates — Bo, Onyema, Quill, Mireille, Dax, Inkeri, Reza, Xolani, Wren, the ship-mind Lemma, and a profane parrot named Pip — are all watching to see if you fly, fold, or follow Henrik out the inner hatch. Pulp space opera, stolen admiral coats, slip-sail charts in three inks, romance with a captain who flirts the way she fights. Pick your role, pick your past, pick your side. Vesper picked you for a reason.