For short-lived ‘Quick’ races like individuals, space is dominated from the complicated, grandiose Mercatoria whose guideline is both armed forces and religious. To the Dwellers who may live billions of years, the galaxy includes their gas-giant planets – the others is debris.

Our human being hero Fassin Taak is a ‘Slow Seer’ privileged to work with the Dwellers from the gas-giant Nasqueron in his house system Ulubis. His lifestyle work is rummaging for data in their vast, disorganised memories and libraries. Regrettably, without knowing it, he’s come close to an ancient key of unimaginable importance…