The Halcyon Reach, forty years into a war that began at a peace summit. On the Concord flagship Indomitable, between the lifts and the laundry, Benny Rusk runs a snack bar and hopes to finish his shift unnoticed. Then the Admiral orders Protocol Omega, a final strike that will burn both fleets, and a stray hit jams the stockroom, shaking loose a tin his late Gran left behind. A space-opera comedy of huge explosions and small, stubborn snacks.