When the transport ship “Hunter-Gratzner” is hit by a meteor shower, the pilot Carolyn Fry is awaken from the cryogenic sleep and tries to control the vessel with forty passengers. She is forced to release a module and only Carolyn, the bounty hunter William J. Johns, the religious Abu “Imam” al-Walid; the dealer Paris P. Ogilvie, Sharon ‘Shazza’ Montgomery, the runaway teenager Jack, John ‘Zeke’ Ezekiel, Suleiman Ali, and the dangerous criminal Richard B. Riddick survive.