Don is a member of the nobility who abandoned his title after his father killed three-thousand of his own people to help secure Don his own territory to rule, becoming a cargo pilot and creating one of the only places in the sol system where people could be free while looking for ways to make things better.
The story starts with him discovering a chance to change everything. Faster than Light travel is possible. A discovery that will give the common people a real chance to fight back for the first time in centuries, but to make things better he has to survive a shadowy organization that has kept the secret of faster-than-light, the nobility and even members of his own crew the help to win the largest war in human history.