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In the age of interstellar travel, there arises a need to salvage the abandoned starships that float through space. The people who take on this dangerous job are known as whale hunters, and they are thought of as heroes. The most respected of all of them is Captain Ahab of the Nantucket Nebula. Because of his stellar reputation, he is sought out by a young man named Lucky, who learns that his planet is slated for destruction by the interplanetary government. Ahab may take some convincing, but he could be the only one with the skills to stop the government's mysterious new weapon, the Moby Dick, from turning an entire world into dust.