After hundreds of years, they have finally found their place in the sun… The Novai are the white-skinned, black-haired alien race native to nowhere—or are they? Centuries of confinement to a single massive mothership in space has turned the Novai into ghostly shadows of what they once were. However, all of that is about to change. Captain Arguute Hett is on a mission to find himself and his people a planet to call their own after spending many lifetimes as galactic nomads. With the help of a fleet of kindly blue A’li-uud, he finds himself in a world full of possibilities. What dangers lurk amongst the trees, what creatures live inside the caverns, Hett doesn’t know…but he’s willing to find out if it means finally putting down roots and waking up beneath the warm rays of sunshine every morning. There are risks, though, great risks that must be considered for the benefit of his kind. If they have indeed found themselves an everlasting territory and Hett decides to settle there, he is almost certainly condemning most of his race to death by an evolutionary affliction. If he resigns to continuing life as space-bound travelers, the Novai will be doomed to extinction too soon. Should Captain choose in favor of the present some, or should he act in favor of the future many? What is the fate of the dwindling race of Novai going to be after all?