Forming BERGMANN'S TEAM continues Guy and Nita's effort to build a human team to assist Striver and Banderat engineers divert the comets threatening Earth with a cometary winter that might end life on their planet. Humans should assist the extraterrestrials in this effort Guy and the Twins put down a Banderat mutiny and rescue four young Banderat females, demonstrating humans possess altruism and the courage to fight when they must Guy begins the task of preparing Earth's governments for the Comet Pass: a near miss on Earth's atmosphere.