Power. Political power, personal power, spiritual power. Many spend years striving for power. We love it. We flaunt it. We abuse it. We frequently kill for it. The Voyage of the Kumbuka takes place towards the end of the twenty-second century and explores the consequences arising from the untrammelled exercise of power in a ruined world where a few survivors are striving to establish a just society in the face of the imperatives of corruption and decadence.