For the first few years, Rick Galloway and his band ofmercenaries were doing well merely to survive. They’d been swept off a hilltop inAfrica by a traveling saucer and transferred on an alien world where the otherinhabitants were human-but from different and unfriendly periods of background, allcollected by flying saucer raids.

Rick offers faced information: this place is going to be home,permanently. To create a safe culture for themselves and the family members they aregradually building, they need to do more than just survive; they must convincethe others a unified, tranquil society is better than a collection ofwarring tribes. Drive would not end up being Rick’s chosen method of persuasion, but on aplanet where in fact the other dominant culture is usually one brought direct from ancient Rome,force may be the only way.