Prince of Katarr
Nej Tane had two life goals: 1) Stay off every bounty board in the galaxy, and 2) Never talk to customer service again. So when a mysterious interstellar sweepstakes informed him he'd won an all-expenses-paid voyage aboard the Celestial Drift, the most luxurious cruise ship in the greater space/galaxy area (so the brochure said), he figured,
"Why not? What's the worst that could happen?"
Turns out, everything when you don't really think things through.
The shrimp is ehhhhhhhh, the pool has three moons orbiting it, and the captain delivers announcements exclusively in interpretive dances. Or maybe he was speaking an alien language because he was blue and had tentacles everywhere. Hard to say. But Nej was starting to enjoy himself, as weird as it was. Then, an announcement that Nej didn't hear-
As it happens, Nej is not alone—mosts of the guests on board are a highly sought-after outlaw, con artist, smuggler, and in one case, a librarian with overdue planetary fines.
Tsk tsk!
Now, trapped in a floating five-star trap with questionable music choices and increasingly unhinged "entertainment," - Nej was unaware. He was infact, horribly unaware. Why?
Because Nej was currently in the hair salon, headphones on and his hair up in a towel while the chaos ensued outside. Mild gunfire, tasers, stun bolts, this and that here and there. But Nej had a hair appointment, a massage, and maybe a mani/pedi to attend to. And then.......