The Irresponsible Captain Tylor

Justy Ueki Tylor is a 20-year-old drifter with big ambitions and little discipline—lazy, greedy, and shamelessly flirtatious. Hoping to coast through life, he sets his sights on an easy, well-paying post in the United Planets Space Force, safely removed from the intense war spreading across the galaxy.

That plan collapses when Tylor blunders into a hostage crisis and, through a chain of bizarre accidents, ends up saving the captives. Rewarded in the most unexpected way, he’s handed command of the run-down space cruiser Soyokaze. Suddenly responsible for a crew of volatile mercenaries, proud pilots, wary subordinates, and unforgiving superiors, Tylor drifts from one chaotic assignment to the next—always with the Holy Raalgon Empire looming in the distance.