Synopsis: From the back cover of the DAW first printing: The biggest spaceship in the galaxy - What's a hundred thousand years more or less to the universe? To ex-private Bernhard breaking rocks on a prison planet, every day felt like eternity. To the myriads of people, robots and self-thinking servo-mechanisms aboard the twenty-thousand mile long spaceship Refanut, it seem like just another day on their endless trip. But when Bernhard escaped to the Refanut, things changed sharply. For all the machinery on the fabulous starship - pride of a long forgotten galactic empire - had been accidentally programmed to adore Bernard - and all its people would just as gladly cut his throat.