There’s no more time…

There’s always additional time…

Trevor Gray has been stripped of his command from the starship America, and it is unsure how to proceed with his lifestyle. Having dedicated so a lot of himself to the support, he knew following super-AI Konstantin’s suggestions could have severe consequences. He simply never thought he’d be out of the fight.

Because that’s what Globe is within: a fight against a sinister alien force thus technologically advanced that there seems little wish. That is why he disobeyed his purchases in the first place – to determine ways to end them. However now he’s beached.

Which is just what Konstantin wanted.

For the super-AI has a plan: connect Gray using the Pan-Europeans, and set him on a course towards the remote star Deneb. There, he’s to get hold of a inexplicable alien civilization using the new artificial intelligence Bright Light, and maybe-if they are able to make it in time-prevent humanity from being wiped through the universe.