Pez’s senior disciple, Bodhi, gets drawn through a wormhole while prospecting in hisExpeditionary Tug Utility ship to become lost in space-time. He is accompanied by hisQuantum AI Humanoid Android, or QAISHA. Together they seek a planetary population withinterstellar travel and end up assisting a planet on the verge of biosphere collapse tomigrate to a pristine yellow sun third planet 28 light years away. Next they discover aplanet population that has attained moral anarchy and is about to be invaded by an empirestill dependent upon star-gates for travel between stars. In the process of liberating theenslaved planets of this empire they discover the people of Pronotavasmi, who areadvancing along the path of the Amonrahonian race, and learn of a dire threat to all ofthe planetary systems they have become affiliated with. The threat is from the people whocall themselves the Consumere, and who thrive on raping the resources of inhabited yellowand white sun inhabited planets. Bodhi must stop them.