'DON'T YOU REMEMBER?' NORMAN ASKED. 'TRAVELLING THROUGH HYPERSPACE DAMAGES THE FABRIC OF SPACE-TIME. THEY SAID THAT IF WE HYPERJUMPED OUR FLEET ACROSS THE GALAXY TO ATTACK THE GALACTIC EMPRESS, REALITY ITSELF WOULD BE DAMAGED IN THE PROCESS.' HIS EYES MET GERALD'S. 'CAUSALITY WOULD UNRAVEL. THAT MUST BE WHAT'S HAPPENING ' Percy goes missing after the rebel space fleet makes another jump through hyperspace. He is inexplicably replaced by a mysterious bird woman. Could it be that causality chaos, which Gerald and Norman have long dismissed as imperial propaganda, is real? Are the space fleet's repeated hyperjumps across the galaxy causing irreparable damage to the space-time continuum? Should they ignore this and continue their war against the Empress? Or is it time to rebel against the Rebellion itself? Part Two in THE PLANETEERS