EMPIRE STATION exists in a seemingly-empty dimension, not found on any chart, not anticipated by any computer model of the universe. The pioneers who discovered it found a gleaming, deserted megalopolis, waiting to be inhabited, impossible to escape, where time and space work in subtly different ways, animated by a mysterious force they call the Power.

Troublemaker-For Hire FAYE ROCKET (McKenzie) has been contacted by a shadow opposition group within the Panopticon, known only as Red Section, to do some exploration with a holographic transponder, to help them create an unsanctioned three-dimensional map of the labyrinthine lower depths. She might not have been so quick to take the job if she had known that the designated area was patrolled by an old acquaintance…

FAYE ROCKET has a past that changes every time she tells it (usually under duress). Is she a rogue Elite? An outsider, trapped within the Panopticon? Or another of the ‘characters’ that the creators have peopled their labyrinthine experiment with? To the cyborg SPIDER, she is merely “Unauthorized”, and therefore in big trouble…