In this sci-fi/fantasy adventure presented as a serialized novel, Part One takes Captain Jonas Latham and his crew on the Galactic Alliance Starship Traveler into the farthest reaches of the galaxy, where Latham has been drawn into a top-secret, baffling mystery. He is now tasked with a covert mission under the guise of a routine First Contact encounter, and the Traveler group makes its way to a small backwater planet in the hindquarters of nowhere. Their arrival at the beautiful little world called Bryn leads to a foray deep into the countryside, where they are guided by the lovely golden scientist Miritha, who, along with a select crew, will act as their guide.

Latham finds himself increasingly drawn to this brilliant and remarkable alien. Ultimately, as she risks everything to enlist his help, Miritha will take him on a side trip to reveal her own closely guarded mystery. There both will realize that the secret they have each protected is essentially one and the same...and one which could send shock ripples throughout the galaxy.