In the forgotten reaches of space, a space station is perched upon the side of a moon, orbiting a desolate planet. Once a bustling hub of trade and service, Syzygy now lies rotting and as its resources wither away, it becomes a battleground for gangs, all vying to be king of the junkyard.
Nemo, an engineer on the station, sees a way out. By stealing a spaceship from a dangerous gang known as the Jackals, they wish to win freedom for themselves, and their mother. But, just as everything was falling into place, the station is caught up in a catastrophic event when it is struck by falling chunks of a monolithic cruiser from another world.
Before the dust has had time to settle, Nemo finds the Jackals knocking on their door, lead by a fearsomely competent yet bizarrely social robot, XO-82. Under threat of harm, Nemo is forced to go with the Jackals to the crash site, to search for new technologies that might give them some advantage in the chaos yet to come. As they comb through the wreckage, Nemo is forced to confront the reality of their crumbling world.