The Centauri Conspiracy

During the age of tall buildings cities, illegal cloning, and one planet government, Meryl Runk gave billionaire Harry OpDyke an idea of how to put humans on other planets. Harry is old and dying, needs help, and talks ex-convict Duncan Bakman into helping him completed his last project. Together with a dedicated crew they coerce, bribe, buy needed materials, kill assassins, rob, kidnap, and even steal the government's spaceship to use as their project's transportation.