Set on the planet Yietta, whose colonists make a living by exploiting its unique liquid‑gas oceans, *Plastic Little* opens with the Yietans on the brink of paying off their debts to the Galactic Federation. However, some are determined to keep Yietta from slipping through their fingers. Enter Tita, a 17‑year‑old captain of the Cha Cha Maru. Together with her crew, she specializes in capturing Yietta’s exotic life forms for intergalactic pet shops, but a stroke of bad luck thrusts her into the center of a sinister plot to seize control of the planet. By rescuing 16‑year‑old Elysse from the clutches of the military, Tita endangers both herself and her crew in mortal peril…