Following a Replicant mutiny on an Off-world mining colony, Ash and Cleo became separated. Cleo fled with the renegade Replicants, while Ash, believed dead, was taken into custody by Hythe, a corporate Blade Runner, and forcibly recruited to track down her surrogate daughter. Following the renegades' trail, Hythe and Ash travelled to the way station of Ramanuja where they encountered the Replicant Isobel, whom Ash believed had died back on Earth when she and Cleo first escaped. Together the three women searched for Cleo among the passengers preparing to embark to the Off-world colony of Arcadia. Ash spotted Cleo and her Replicant friend Padric, but before she could act, Hythe double-crossed her, triggering a furious gun battle that left both Padric and Hythe dead. Cleo and Isobel were at long last reunited and set off to Arcadia, while Ash returned back to Earth…