A thousand and a bit years into the future, things are in a bit of a pickle and people are getting a tad fighty, in efforts to sort everything out a rag-tag team of misfits from around the solar system are brought together out of a plot convenience and must risk everything they have, (which as it turns out is not very much), in an effort to save an uncaring universe from itself, or at least leave it in a better shape than when they started.