Suddenly a team of Fronurbdian Beasthunters charges in, intent on catching the Beast for their zoo. Mistaking you for the Beast, they fire stun guns at you, wrap you in nets, and install you in a lovely little lair in the Fronurbdi National Zoo.
Three months later the error is discovered, but while your damage suit is pending in the Fronurbdian courts the planet is invaded by Bureaucratic Pirates from Pallidon IV. Impressed into bondage for a 16-year filing and sorting mission on the so-called "basement world" of Sporla in the Lesser Magellanic Cloud, you escape with the help of a tribe of nomadic asteroid painters.
You develop a unique talent for asteroid painting, gaining considerable fame throughout the Cloud. A nickel-ore deluxe is commissioned by His Royal Gorpness Orbjfelk, the ruler of the Nine Hundred Worlds of Gorp, but while working on this new masterpiece your asteroid slips into a small passing black hole. Everything becomes...