When Mark booked a spaceflight to the Echelon System for his final exam, he was ready to answer some tough questions --- not to get thrown into a shipwreck where misremembering a detail from his Starship Engineering elective class could land him an eternity as an ice sculpture drifting among the stars. FTL travel, gravity modulation and force shields are commonplace technology found in starships that middle class civilians can hope to afford with decent enough credit or savings. This space age needs engineers more than ever, so Mark chose his career with an expectation of an easygoing life. Instead, you'll follow him as he tears down and loots broken starships for parts that can aid his survival in deep space's cold, uncharted dark. As his hopes for a rescue slip further and further, Mark beings to consider an undertaking that will test all of his knowledge, his resolve and his body: to put all of those spare parts together into a working starship. This story is a love letter to Rimworld, its popular mod Save our Ship 2, and novels like Reborn as a Space Mercenary and Renegade Ravager. While the story's core is with Mark's progression via disassembling and repairing starships, there's also a crew of female leads that slowly forms as the protagonist's harem.For no particular reason, there's also many instances of cute, silly creatures such as space robot cats and marketable plushies.