I've always hated that meme that "Aliens always abduct drunken slack-jaw yokels in the middle in nowhere, people with the IQ of warm sand, who have never read a Science Fiction Book in their life, and have never fought anything more than a school yard fight" So what, I ruminated, if the aliens came to Earth, and abducted a group of guys, say, Rednecks with a grasp of Science?

Six coworkers at a retail store are in for a big shock when they wake up on a spaceship in another galaxy. The pilot tells them that one will be selected to become the final member of the ship's crew. The ship is the self-aware and very illegal bio-ship, K1 5VN3, whose ongoing mission is to explore the galaxy for strange new discoveries and avoid the authorities at all cost.

An Alternate History - where - after 9/11 - a bioterrorist attack follows, striking down the Great Satan...but there are some unexpected consequences of the HellPox plague...