Synopsis: Out there... beyond the frontier... beyond the last human settlement in the Pleiadesm lay the territory of the Moldaug: alien, menacing things from far, inhuman stars who were gathering their forces of war. And it seemed that the people of the Old Worlds, in unreasonable and unreasoning fear, were preparing to sacrifice the colonies of the New Worlds in a cowardly attempt to avert that war.... But not if frontiersman Cully When had anything to do with it!