Shipbreakers - Higher State Book 1

The Galactic Encyclopaedia of Everything (33rd edition) defines a Shipbreaker as a person (or persons) who retrives important items from or salvages high value targets, space hulks, and other strategic assets. It can be a lonely profession, spending weeks at a time scouring the fringes of known space and beyond for the next big score, but several hundred years of human history among the stars has left behind all manner of relics and goodies for the taking that make it more than worthwhile... for those brave (or foolish) enough to chase after them.

Captain Eliza Schneider's crew of the Shipbreaker vessel Star of Dawn is one such team who are brave enough to enter the lawless regions of space where there are no rules, and where justice is dispensed from the barrel of a hyper-velocity railgun. After a routine yet high-paying job retrieving an item from a ship that was lost with all hands, the Dawn is attacked by raiders using more advanced weapons that is normal for their ilk, leading the Dawn and her crew on an adventure that will change the galaxy forever.