Kidnapped by aliens and relocated to a hostile planet, the crew of the spaceship Avenger struggles to maintain their identity and bonds with their shipmates as they are split apart and thrown into the aliens’ war. Seen as a threat to one faction, the human crew become targets in an internal political struggle, and uncover a conspiracy that reaches beyond their crew -and all the way back to Earth. Return to the origin of the Rykolien Immigrants series, reaching back more than four hundred years before the events of On Alert, when humanity first met the vekorna, in the hopes of bringing stability to the planet Rykol.