It was supposed to be a standard repair of the E.S.S. Seeker's main mining bot. But Minnie the Miner had gone off course, way off course, and Cadet Tanner Voss' team was tagged to fix the problem. But the wayward miner was much farther astray than anyone thought. Minnie was 500,000 years off. Even worse, she'd dragged Tanner's team with her. Tanner and his crew must decide whether to save the remnants of an almost extinct sentient species-made so through genocide and ethnic cleansing--or to to let the universe do as it will as per their own non-interference directives. All this, while avoiding becoming the next course for a giant being with a voracious appetite...