Building a new society, Adara struggles with all the responsibilities on her shoulders. An uncomfortable ship, seven months pregnant and a saboteur create an intolerable situation. Teamwork and drawing on all resources, including the children, helps get all the tasks done and sets a precedent on how they move forward as they travel to their new home. Adara and Decker gather up the Wayfarers, Humans, Briskans, and a variety of other races to leave. Friends, Georgette, Luke, and Drake, join them bring needed skills. While mistakes are made and they stumble, Adara finds a way to guide her mismatched group of people. People pull together to work in clusters and teams. Children begin training earlier than human society in order to fine tune their skills and help the fledgling society. Sabotage begins ranging from small annoyances to inconvenient to deadly. Paul and Franklin work to determine who is the saboteur. While they are looking forward, Secretary Manon tries to draw them back to the services by enticing Decker back to the services. Seeing no change in their attitude, Decker flat out refuses.