Dante is reunited with an old bounty hunter friend named MacDuff who is dying from a brain tumor but still offers to assist Dante on a final mission. Dante's partner Lucretia is tasked by her mysterious father Darius to capture a renegade geneticist named Eccleston who may hold the key to the so-called "Divinity Cluster" — a sequence of human genes believed implanted by aliens that when activated unlock incredible superhuman abilities.
Percy ignores the warnings of both Dante and Lucretia when she decides to befriend one of a pair of cousins that the crew of the Tulip are transporting to an automated prison on Mercury.
The crew of the Tulip receive a radio transmission from a religious cult planning to commit mass suicide by crashing their ship into the sun. Lucretia winds up falling under the unnatural influence of charismatic cult leader Brother #13.
Dante and Lucretia capture Petrakis, a vicious escaped prisoner who hijacked a luxury yacht. However, Tulip gets commandeered by a Special Ops squad transporting Ire, a young girl with unique powers who might be infected with a deadly virus.
Dante and Lucretia try to capture Novak, a ruthless war criminal who's responsible for sacrificing thousands of innocent people to the Divinity Cluster. Meanwhile, Percy and Caravaggio have their hands full contending with Billy Ray, a blithely malevolent holographic computer virus that's wreaking havoc on board the Tulip.
Dante brings aboard a criminal scientist, Dr. Nasreen from Mimas, along with her teenage son Ajit. Using a mind-scanning device disguised as a bracelet, the doctor takes control of Dante's mind and uses him to seize control of the ship.
While transporting con artist Etienne to prison, the Tulip receives a distress call from Dr. Devon, who is being pursued by a band of Raiders after freeing his psychically gifted son Ryan from an Orchard research facility.
Rudolpho instructs the crew of the Tulip to pick up a murder suspect who turns out to be Lucretia's ex-husband Eric, who has escaped from an Orchard medical facility where he was injected with an experimental antibody that has killed all previous recipients within 48 hours.
Dante and Lucretia encounter a Raider with a boy who might be Dante's missing son while hunting con artists on Mars. Back on the Tulip, Percy gets trapped in Dante's virtual reality device that simulates his dead wife Penny.
Percy gets arrested after she assaults a bounty hunter who's a member of the rival group the Oberen Militia. Oberen Militia leader Rex uses Percy's arrest to blackmail Dante into freeing her brother Goran from a Neried prison.
Colonel E.W. Bramwell wakes after 50 years in cryogenic slumber. However, Bramwell still believes that Earth is at war with the Raiders. Dante plans to use Bramwell's legendary status with the Raiders as a means to find his son Travis.
Dante is reunited with Ike, old friend who was a rival for Penny's affections. Ike's shady business partner Marco works with Raiders to locate special seeds that can grow in any climate. Percy suspects that Lucretia has a hidden agenda.
Harman, former associate of Darius Scott, becomes one of the most wanted men in the universe after he develops superhuman speed and refuses to talk to anyone but Darius. Dante's and Percy's suspicions about Lucretia come to a head.
Darius pulls strings with Rudolpho to have the Tulip transport Andrea Arquette, an artist who's suspected of murder. Percy discovers that the Tulip is being trailed by a cloaked ship that might be over three million years old.
Darius boards the Tulip to help Lucretia inform Dante about the Divinity Cluster.
After Rudolpho sells the Tulip to weaselly businessman Max for conversion into a prison ship, Dante must infiltrate Max's organization while fending off the unwanted advances of Max's amorous wife Zelda.
The Tulip is diverted to search for survivors after an accident at a secret research station on Triton. When it gets disabled by the station's graviton experiment, Dante stumbles on a time loop that gives him multiple chances to save Percy.
Dante, Lucretia, and Percy are caught in separate Bubble Universes due to graviton experiment on a Triton research station gone haywire. Each has to outwit different versions of Five, insane serial killer prisoner on board the Tulip.
Dante agrees to transport Rudolpho's friend Stephen Hamilton and his two daughters Ayla and Cordula. However, Dante is unaware that Hamilton is being blackmailed by the Orchard to spy on him.
Dante is kidnapped by ruthless Orchard agent Tosca, who believes Dante's missing son Travis holds the key to The Divinity Cluster. Percy has her hands full as she tries to stop an evil version of Caravaggio from blowing up the Tulip.
The Tulip receives a cryptic message from Percy that leads Dante to the special seeds concealed in her quarters. Dante is reunited with his son Travis, who reveals his mother Penny's role in early experiments with The Divinity Cluster.
Tension and mistrust mounts among the crew members of the Tulip with the addition of Dante's son Travis as a reluctant new member. Moreover, Eccleston returns from "the dead" with a dire warning about The Divinity Cluster.
The Tulip emerges from hyperspace after 15 years with Percy aboard. Dante is lost somewhere in time, but his son Travis, now a grown man, has taken up the bounty hunting profession and is assisted by his friend Marcus Fagen.
On Io, Travis and Callie are hired by the Jupiter Federation to help stop a Raider clan war and must capture a clan leader, Dakkota 79, before he activates a Thorium bomb.
Down on Io's Syn City, Marcus comes to the aid of a prostitute friend named Taryn who is being mutated by a genetic alteration. Marcus learns a geneticist known as "Father Abode" is in the business of made-to-order sex slaves.
Callie is mortally wounded during a botched mission and her only chance for survival is her "blank," a mindless full-body clone used for spare parts and kept on ice by her estranged family on Mars. When Travis tries to get the blank, Callie's father Janus denies having it, but Travis knows he is lying.
The Tulip crew brings aboard a man found in a lifepod and adrift in a debris field. Percy nurses him back to health but the man has no memory of who he is or why he was dumped in the trash.
The bounty hunters go after Salvatore, the leader of "The Children of the Earth" - a terrorist group demanding the rehab of Earth and the end to colonization of the solar system. Their recent bombing of the Ring Shepherd Station has put them at the top of the Jupiter Fed wanted list.
Marcus and Percy try their hand at bounty hunting and go after what Travis considers an easy target - a petty thief named Tremayne. Tagging along are a holographer named Julian and his assistant Nasdeen, who are filming a documentary on bounty hunting.
This adventure turns into a family affair as Travis and team are hired to rescue a man's kidnapped parents, evoking memories of Travis's own lost father, and Rudolpho comes face to face with the teenaged daughter he hasn't seen in years.
A powerful narcotics broker dealing the latest recreational drug has people dying daily on Saturn Federation, and Travis is hired to bring in the drug lord.
Travis is smitten with Callie's old friend, the beautiful Lena Bannen who visits the Tulip and who, with a big secret to hide, keeps bounty hunters hot on the trail of the ship and its crew.
En route to dropping off a bounty, Travis and his crew encounter an old nemesis who offers to share the riches from a cache of precious stones rarer than diamonds.
The Tulip encounters a formidable foe that, after destroying planets in the Far Worlds, is determined to wreak havoc on the inner reaches of the solar system.
As the Tulip transports a prisoner back to Jupiter, the ship and its inhabitants come to the rescue of an orbital mining platform being rocked by waves of gravitational turbulence.
As Tulip transports Jane Doe, psych patient suffering from amnesia, to Ganeymede Correctional facility, nefarious Orchard makes a reappearance, intent on tracking down those who possess unusual powers as a result of the Divinity Cluster.
Percy, disgruntled with Carravagio's chauvinism, decides to create an AI that emulates the more "feminie" traits of emotion and intuition, but "Kate" is not exactly what she had in mind.
Dealing with a series of malfunctions, and a psychotic prisoner who gets loose, the crew of the Tulip is helped by Captain Judson of Fugitive Containment Systems - a corporate-backed bounty hunting team equipped with a state-of-the-art ship and the latest resources.
The hunters capture a conman named Alex Arroyan who, after a medical scan, is found to be an identical DNA match to Marcus.
Travis and crew are transporting a government official to the Manheim Asteroid Belt to close a trade deal, but the assignment is not what it seems and the bureaucrat is not whom he appears to be.
In the interest of offering improved bounty-hunting services, our crew goes in search of alternative fuel for their anti-matter drive, deciding it's time to put the module to the test.
While docked at Olympus Mons City, Travis is contacted by Mars Fed in regards to his expired bounty hunting license. Despite only being two days late for renewal, a prosecutor named Calder comes aboard the Tulip and places the crew under house arrest pending a court hearing into a series of complaints filed against them. The hunters' only hope to keep their jobs, and ship, lies in an attorney named Morgan... who freely accepts their case.
While trying to solve the problems of hyperspace, Marcus finds help in the theories of a Dr. Gregory Lanzig and decides to track him down. Lanzig proves hard to find, but Travis and Callie find his assistant Dr. Vienna Xeylon. Xeylon offers a device called a horizon generator which once installed in the Tulip will help create a stable warp bubble. Orchard agents come for Xeylon and Tristan Catchpole returns and chases the Tulip down. Their only chance for escape is to try Xeylon's device and enter hyperspace.
Having fled from The Orchard into hyperspace, each Tulip crew member finds themselves in their own pocket reality, but a problem in all realities is that the ship's molecules are destabilizing due to a warp bubble imbalance. Elsewhere in hyperspace, Travis finds Xeylon, who explains how to activate his Divinity Cluster power. Travis wishes to return to the point in time where Callie is shot and try to stop it.