The Commonwealth Explorer Class Vessel, the SS Evangeline is tasked with a series of first contact ambassadorial missions to recruit allies among the low-tech worlds.
As if being born Diasporan wasn't enough, Technician Nash Korpes had the bad luck to resemble his Tyran ancestors almost identically in both form, and manner.
Nebula Yorker (';Neb' to his friends) finds himself on the water planet of Marine in a race to recover a long lost Triopelian Star Chart he previously never knew existed.
Newcomers arrive on the Nelson Mandela Medical Space Station continuously: ship crews, new medical staff, casualties in cryopods, and occasionally, the unexpected or the unwelcome.