On a secret mission of surveillance and experimentation the ship Dharmakaya had come. What its travelers found was a ruling race of humanoids, the Tropiards, their feelings reflected in their hard, glowing eyes of crystal.
But there were beings below these leaders, beings who threatened even as they enticed, a mysterious, mystical subculture known as the Sh'gaidu. To win them as immigrants to a new world was the goal -- but the ruling race had other goals, other motives hidden behind the crystal stare of their eyes of fire.
