From publisher blurb:
While in the Sonora sector the travelers are unfortunate enough to pass through the wrong star port. The charges are a trumped up customs violation that the travelers are completely innocent of. Despite this a local judge was not friendly to the travelers. He found them guilty and sentenced them to ten years on the Usranob station.
This prison station has a notorious reputation. Prisoners are subjected to hard labor, deadly prisoners and sadistic guards. But that is the least of the problems. It seems that the station had a little problem with it’s power supply briefly. The power was restored before life support completely failed but now the station is slipping into orbital decay.
But those are not the only problems......
The planet below is a ball of frozen wasteland with no residents. The administrators of the station have fled the station in the only vehicles capable of leaving it. The only remaining guards are sadistic thugs with weapons. Rival gangs of prisoners are taking over portions of the station. And the station will crash into the planet below in less than 24 hours. Other than that....everything is fine.....