When Sevan's home planet is destroyed, he decides to track down and kill the perpetrator
But in his efforts to enrol the help of the last assassins he loses his ship and then his friends.
Can a ball of gas claiming to be the president's nephew provide the solution?
Republic fighters have a different idea and Sevan finds himself in a flight for his life.
Rocket to Trinculo is the third novella in the light-hearted Mastery of the Stars space opera series.