We follow the story of Pan, a young woman living in a smaller more suburban corner of the galaxy. After experiencing a particular event in her teens which the story opens up with, we are thrust into her mid-20’s where she is working with her father’s mechanic business and the town is falling down around her. At this time we are also introduced to the televised tournaments of the Cosmoknights, a mech suit based last man standing battle royale in which the victor wins the right to marry the princess of each planets royal family. Pan is not psyched about these tournaments and neither was I, like seriously mech fights are fun and all but the objectification of the princess’ as a prize to be won is not a fun thing to think about and that is exactly what this book is all about! We meet Cass & Bee who actually participate in the Cosmoknight tournaments as a way to bring down the patriarchy from inside the system! Pan finds this all out and can’t just stand there and let them go fight this good fight without her, so she tags along by running away from home and stowing away!