When Bixby DeLouins stumbled onto a video feed from a damaged lunar sensor array, he never imagined it would end up with him being given a space ship and told to find the home worlds of the dreaded Mire. Along the way the Loch Ness monster comes to the moon, the Healers Aneastus are restored, and a hunt for the Mire Home Worlds leads to new friends. If the political factions vying for control of the Union don't figure out just how much the rules of the game have changed, the Union may not survive.