19. One More Day's Light

Complete story — includes the ending

Dylan deals with the residents of Seefra-1 who are unhappy with the number of refugees arriving on their planet. With Trance's sun working its way through the Seefra system it is time for Seefra-5 to be evacuated. Rhade and Harper are there working to get the Vedran tesseract machine working but there are more than just technological problems. The planet is led by an extreme technophobe who believes the planetary instabilities are an illusion created by those wanting to lure them into slavery on Seefra-1. Rhade is captured while trying to help the leader's sister, who had tried to organize an evacuation. Above Seefra-5, Beka is surprised when she intercepts a ship containing three Nietzscheans, a race, apart from Rhade, unknown in the system. They appear to be impressed to learn that she is their Matriarch. Meanwhile, Trance has gone missing. They noted that she has behaved differently since the events on Methus-2.