Odysseus was the name of a small rogue planetoid in deep space near the Tomin Nebula. Barely larger than an asteroid, Odysseus was perched precariously between two black holes, Scylla and Charybdis. In the year 2650, John Christian Falkenberg and the crew of the Zephyr discovered Odysseus while on a survey mission seeking a new secure location for the palace of Lord Fagin, the Pirate King, after his famous fortress on Tomin Kora was destroyed. Falkenberg and the Zephyr crew discovered a system of pressurized caves on Odysseus with a primitive life support system in place, which it soon turned out had been installed by a group of rogue Nall who had been using Odysseus as a base. The Zephyr crew cleaned out the Nall after a brief combat engagement, and returned to notify Fagin's majordomo, G