For decades, the descendants of the powerful telepath known as the Rowan have used their various abilities to greatly help mankind – some are telepaths, others can teleport through space, others are empathic healers. The clan is continuing to grow powerful. They have led Globe to ally itself using the alien Mrdini, and together the two races have kept back the predatory Hivers, a fatal insectoid varieties that kills all lifestyle it discovers. Like all powerful households, the Rowan clan has also made enemies. A couple of about The Tower as well as the Hive those who say the treaties using the Mrdini gave away an excessive amount of – especially, the Mrdini get a lot more than their fair share of new liveable space as habitable planets are discovered – the Hivers must have been exterminated right now, and that far too much power is targeted in one family. The clan has two goals to keep carefully the peace: to help the Mrdini control populace growth, so that newly uncovered planets are distributed more evenly, and to put your final halt to Hiver advancements. They are confident of success – if they may survive sabotage and assassination efforts aimed at destroying all they been employed by for.