The Salvager's Plague

Salvage Engineer Thomas Aacen swore he'd never work with Captain Barstol again, but was blackmailed into it. The blackmail was falsified, but even still, it might have been better to just let him spill it, cause now he was abandoned for dead on a remote planetoid with no atmosphere, desperately looking for a way to survive. But that is just the beginning of his troubles, when his attempt to survive unearths the truth about the ship Captain Barstol just hauled away.  A truth that would put the whole quadrant in danger.