Talmido, Si-tatious and thousands of men, women, and children flee south toward the confluence of the Tigress River and the Sea Above Akkad. The Assyrian and Babylonian military has dispatched military contingents to pursue the fleeing slaves while Elam under King Shutruk-Nahhunte sends military incursions into the southeastern parts of Assyria. Ashur-dan I the Emperor of Assyria and Zababa-shuma-iddina King of Babylon prepare for war against a coalition of nations cobbled together by Elam. It is to be a war on a grand scale. All the while Talmido, Si-tatious, and their group fight battles for freedom and determination. It is the inherent right to make their own decisions that spur them on toward liberty and their desire to build a city of freemen and women; to be masters of their own destiny. It is a struggle that defines the level of desire for autonomy – for the freedom of choice. It is the hard decisions that have to be made that define the men Talmido and Si-tatious become and need to be. It is the relationships they make and maintain that charts the future course of their actions. As events unfold on Earth schemes and plots are devised and implemented in faraway Galaxies by alien biological creates. The destruction of empires and whole solar systems mark a tragic turn of events to follow. Ke-zith-rist now an Admiral of the rebel fleet is fighting for the survival of the rebel worlds trying to regain their freedom from a despotic empire of a psychotic ruling class. Pursued by a determined Admiral of the Imperial Fleet, Ke-zith-rist employs tactics of brilliance to save his frantic group civilian of star liners and cargo ships. It is at this juncture a new alien biological individual comes onto the scene. A being balancing on a knife's edge of compliance and yet rebellion. It is the realization that issues a perception of conflicting moral certitude within its core nature and the resulting actions taken by it to preserve its race and cultural wellbeing. It is the duplicitous nature of its Masters that drives it toward the answers needed to quiet its troubled mind and the conflicting reality of the day that brings the potential for madness. All of the characters have their microcosm of self-fulfillment and determination while living under the growing threat of a vast external conflict on a Galactic basis by two unidentified and yet pervasive groups of rival thought and action.