For the golden-eyed Elspind, membership in the Cooperative League of Systems could bring many benefits… including a drug that would greatly increase their brief life spans.
Mark Kenner, on the brink of abandoning his StarBridge career, is forced into one last assignment -- to speak on Elseemar for the CLS.
But some of the Elspind are opposed to any such alliance. -Violently- opposed. They call themselves Wospind. And they are waiting for Mark and his companions…