Frank "Franky" Heather is a prisoner on Isotropa Max Secure and his ship the Firedrake is impounded on the station. It offers a means of escape, but the Guild of Starsmiths were on their way to take the ship away.
Meade Grey is another prisoner, on trumped up charges of Mem Trafficking. The two of them have hatched a plan to escape. Meade is a resourceful man, and has been able to secure some Leverage.
Doctor Moth (Mevakor Ortcutt) is an employee of the Prison and oversees the treatment and care of the Prisoners, but he has a passion for Way mysteries and Precurser technology. Meade has secured an artifact of Precurser design to bribe the good doctor. The doctor does not need much convincing, he is wracked with guilt over the relentless vivisection and brutal experimentation of Mphoentle Begin the by Doctor Khelanth Xhu, tending to her horrible wounds after Dr. Xhu carves off another piece of her.
The jailbreak all hinges around the Isotropa Guard Captain Kreel's birthday party. Every guard will want a piece of his birthday cake. And that cake will be poisoned by Moth (Mevakor Ortcutt) to put the guards out of commission for the escape.