Looking for a story but stuck on the name. Keep coming back to legend of the askari but cannot find it,
It's about an orphan, working on a planet that gets raided and shoots them with a modified rifle, then a cave, then gets turned female by a centurys old hidden base, meets some gangs , kills gangs, name of queenie keeps popping in head, finds an orphan, gets help from 2 friendly aliens, eventually escapes the planet

Racking my brains here. Please help