Meanwhile, Sherkaner's brilliant mind comes up with ideas for expanding the nation's ability to withstand the rigors of the Dark. This sparks a national crisis and a kidnapping that results in the death of one of the children. The two shun tradition, having children out of the traditionally-accepted phase. A young Spider named Sherkaner Underhill marries a young military general named Victory Smith. The various nations are at odds and war seems possible. Meanwhile, the Spiders are involved in something akin to a civil war. The Emergents, however, are also crippled during the fight and realize that they are going to have to wait years for the Spiders to develop the technology necessary to allow them to travel back to their home. The surviving Qeng Ho are forced into something akin to slavery with no real freedom to make their own decisions. The goals being at such odds, the two races clash and the Emergents mount a surprise attack in which the Qeng Ho are all but annihilated. The Emergents plan to mine and exploit the area for everything they can find of value while the Qeng Ho hope to establish a profitable trading relationship.
The star is an anomaly in which the energy is literally switched off for two hundred fifteen of every two hundred fifty years. Two races of people, the Emergents and the Qeng Ho, arrive at the OnOff star at the same time.
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