The Adventures of Wil Calder

Zephyr and Maxim are a pair of disgraced Peacekeepers, who've been framed by their superiors and left to rot. Wil, the first human to leave the solar system (intentionally or not), decides to break them out so they can join his crew on the Ghost. Things go downhill from there. As they try to stock up on supplies, they pick up an extra crew member. Bennie is a hacker who is creating clean identities for the ex-peacekeepers and ends up joining the crew as they are chased off the planet's surface by actual peacekeepers. Ok, things could be worse. Wil has his crew even if by accident. Now it's time to get to work. The crew is hired to break into a super secure criminal self-storage facility in deep space. The heist is a multi-POV (think Leverage) scene where the team discovers that they've stolen a robot. A robot Wil does NOT want to turn on, so of course they do. Now the crew numbers five. The robot reveals a plot to destabilize the government of several non-aligned star systems to force them to join the Galactic Commonwealth. It's a race against time as the plot is already in motion and the crew decides to stop it. Maxim and Zephyr want to clear their names and Wil hates one of the principal conspirators, so taking him down could be fun. It all comes to a head outside the Harrith star system with a massive space battle, some flight tricks, and not dying. At the end of it all, Wil feels more human now that he has a crew and people to care about, and that care about him. The crew recuperates while the Ghost is repaired then flies off into the sunset while a court case of galactic proportions begins.