A major surprise awaits you in this follow-up to "The Last Voyage of the Cassiopeia." The Mars/EarthCon war continues and comes to a conclusion. Help comes from a surprising quarter Ralph and the troupe become more involved in the war and Kessel and Mansfield's lives are changed forever Ralph gets situated in the Martian community on a permanent basis and a major new characters are introduced Ralph also learns some things about the Cassiopeia's last mission and incidents connected to it that even he didn't know about, as viewed from the perspective of history. Other things and suspicions about it are confirmed or clarified.