I’ve written the first draft to a scifi novella which you can read for free on Royal Road.

When a foe sets Lieutenant Angers up for destruction by planting an AI-hungry virus on his starfighter, Angers has no choice but to jump blindly into hyperspace in desperate hope of evading the Paraceum on some minor world.

He crashes on Dirt, a small planet colonized many generations ago by human exiles.

Carrick, a young man of no family who lives on Dirt, refuses to give up his mob boss, and for this is sentenced to a lifetime of labor in the Wasteland, the frozen location of humanity’s failed attempt to conquer the stars.