The Wreck of the Untranslatable: The First Tale of the Scape Grace: 1 (Tales of the Scape Grace)

Captain Evgeny Lerner was already struggling to maintain his mastery of the pirate starship Scape Grace and her crew of pan-galactic rogues. He just wanted to guide her toward profit and away from disaster by navigating the shrinking shadows of an expanding galactic Collective. Stuck with a giant violent authoritarian first mate; a half-computer communications officer; a xenophobic ships doctor; a psychotic saurian weapons officer; a genetically engineered engineer torn from his collectivist species; and a combat crew culled from the worst refuse of two systems Captain Lerner faced plenty of challenges. But when a raid went wrong and Scape Grace was caught defenseless they found themselves pressed into service escorting a lost ship from an unknown alien race. The unique ship with an untranslatable name proved that even in an increasingly civilized galaxy surrounded by some of its oddest renegades a weary ships captain could still be surprised by something new.