Caleb works as an engineer for a abusive drunk in slums of the Capital, main city of the tyranical Empire. The world is bleak, wasting away with little meaning to life. One day is does change when he gets approached to do a job for a famous crime lord that could finally enable him to leave and start a new life.
Unfortunately the plan goes to hell and Caleb barely escapes with his life, the only thing he grabbed was a strange metal cube.
He now has the choice of dying, or do anything he can to survive. Even if that means joining a smuggler and pirate crew in desperate need of a engineer, with the mysterious leader of the Empire hunting that very cube.