The Stars Now Unclaimed

My name is... well, it doesn't matter what my name is. Here's what you need to know about me. I'm an ex-soldier and a present-day-mercenary. My job is to rescue gifted kids from s**thole planets on the far edges fo the universe. My current mission: a 13-year-old girl named Esa. Esa's a telepath. And she's got a guardian, a kind of robot named Preacher, so I guess I'm rescuing Preacher, too.

Here's the problem: there's a fleet of war-crazed monsters out there, and they're after the same kid. 

And they'll do anything to get her - even start an intergalactic war.

I guess I'd better start one first.