14 JAYTEN TOLD US that since Lilona had stayed behind in Barresh, and the captain had made himself so unpopular that the ship had been banished from all gamra worlds, never to return to inhabited space, there had been a lot of problems aboard. For the many years that they travelled, the captain had reigned unchallenged, not because he was such a good leader, but because what he did was sensible, and the ship had a goal. But once the goal—to return to their home planet—had been reached and they had found their home world occupied by the Coldi, things started to unravel. From the moment the ship had left, a good number of the Aghyrians had held up the ideal of returning to Asto. They had designed their journey with the sole purpose of bridging the fifty thousand years needed to return th