Five hundred years in the future, a smart, high-spirited and hard-drinking young woman begins a tour of the Solar System with a centuries-old mad scientist, who has employed her in a project that will change the course of trans-human history. The two face the dangers not only of hostile otherworldly environments, but of human treachery, as unscrupulous corporate powers seek to learn what this scientist is up to. Collects the first 400 strips of the popular serial-adventure webcomic by Scott Bieser.

Continuing the futuristic, outer-space adventures of young Nicole Oresme and her mad-scientist employer, Dr. Seamus O'Murchadha: Our protagonists visit the planet Mars, which its Sino-Japanese colonists call Huoxing, where Seamus must pay his respects to his late friend Po Xu-ke and deal with Po's nefarious nephews. Along the way they meet the android/slave Ventura, formerly Po's concubine, who has some secrets of her own. Later, our protagonists proceed to the planetoid Vesta, where they become involved in a murder mystery that is linked to a scheme which could result in the deaths of...