When Connar regains consciousness in the KLONDIKE's infirmary, after the imposed 'Distanceless Soul Transfer', he is confronted with a personal problem. Carolin, his wife, wants to return to Earth to her old world. Since she is now still in the year 2274 earth time calculation, a somewhat costly undertaking. In the same year, the humans in the Vega system encounter the Sa'lfenien race. A delegation led by Princess Sha'hon is invited to the Earth system. When the ship with the non-human emissaries reaches populated Mars, a young man is about to begin his studies at the local university. When, more by chance than anything else, he meets the princess Sha'hon, he is catapulted into an alien world so completely different from his previous life. He undergoes a parapsychic experiment when the consciousness, the spirit of Commander Tarik Connar takes over his body.