Synopsis: Star searcher! Skeen had a last won free of Mistommerk and back to her own universe. Yet the price of that freedom was to undertake a search for any Ykx who still dwelled beyond the Gateway to Mistommerk, to find these last survivers of the once-mighty race, and to lead them back through the Gateway before a super-nova forever ended the chance for the Ykx of Mistommerk to be reunited with their long lost kindred. With the shapeshifter Timka and the Ykx Lipitero, Skeen and her crewmate Tibo began to prowl the spaceways, seeking to discover the location of Rallen, a world out of legend, and home - so rumor had it - of the Ykx. But the path to Rallen would send Skeen from some of the deadliest hellholes in the galaxy to a confrontation with the Empire warships before she faced her greatest challenge - getting the Ykx free of Rallen and all its dangers before the Gateway was closed to them forever...