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Prologue
The space age is thirty thousand years old. Men have moved from star to star in search of wealth and

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glory; the Gaean Reach encompasses a perceptible fraction of the galaxy. Trade routes thread space like
capillaries in living tissue; thousands of worlds have been colonized, each different from every other,
each working its specific change upon those men who live there. Never has the human race been less
homogenous.

The outward surge has been anything but regular or even. Men have come and gone in waves and
fluctuations, responding to wars, to religious impetus, to compulsions totally mysterious.

The world Koryphon is typical only in the diversity of its inhabitants. On the continent Uaia, the Uldras