In the twenty-first century, the Northern star ship Sic Transit reaches Uncertainty 7 after a journey of more than twenty years. The planet is immediately hostile and disaster strikes ~ leaving Clarity Crucis-Pabo, the ship’s Psy-Archivist as the only apparent survivor. Cut off from Earth, she is now the lone inhabitant of a vast, deserted metropolis built by the extinct Zöyt Fjördians, a strangely humanoid race whose entropic society corroded many centuries ago. Eventually, after an eerie voyage along the calamitous canals of Redd Ditch and a ghostly trek through the petrified Underbank, she makes a literally breathtaking discovery concerning Zöyt Fjördian ancestry. On her return to the city she receives unlimited power ~ but is no longer alone…