Believing to permanently eliminate the monster that Callista has become, Granite has rushed her ship through the door of the universes and crashed onto the planet Glèbe. A strange world dominated by a people of insectoids with very advanced technology, where also other intelligent races live, including a very close to humanity. They will have to survive, in search of a way to join the Federation, while at the same time, on Neuhorf, Callista organizes a formidable coup d'état and puts his hands on several hundred worlds...