"The Krakau came to Earth to invite humanity into a growing alliance of sentient species. However, a mutate plague had just wiped out half the planet, turned the rest into shambling near-unstoppable animals, and basically destroyed human civilization. You know - your standard apocalypse. The Krakau's first impulse was to turn around and go home. (After all, it's hard to have diplomatic relations with mindless savages who eat your diplomats.) Their second impulse was to fix us. Now, a century later, human beings might not be what they once were, but at least they're no longer trying to eat everyone. Mostly. Marion "Mops" Adamopoulos is surprisingly bright (for a human). As a lieutenant on the Earth Mercenary Corps Ship Pufferfish, she's in charge of the Shipboard Hygiene and Sanitation team. When a bioweapon attack wipes out the Krakau command crew and reverts the rest of the humans to their feral state, only Mops and her team are left with their minds intact. While trying to escape the attacking aliens, keep the Pufferfish functioning, and find a cure for their crew, they stumble onto a conspiracy that could threaten the entire alliance...a conspiracy born from the truth of what happened on Earth all those years ago."--publisher.