The time is the twenty-third century. Richard Cox is the commander of the Johnson Point Space Surveillance Installation on Danovian Prime. For five years there has been relative calm in this region of interstellar space. An uptick in monitored subspace and regular frequency radio traffic discloses disturbing calls for help, as entire worlds in an area known as Gulf are being obliterated As Cox, Executive Officer Genni Carr, and Prime Minister Jon Dewey confer, the cause of this destruction has been transported for hiding at the North Pole of their terrestrial moon Trinity by two male Terran...