John Crichton has spent the last four years lost in a far distant region of the galaxy with many amazing alien species, but nothing he has encountered has prepared him for the journey about to come. With Aeryn, his alien love, about to give birth to their first child, Crichton finds himself in the middle of nothing less than a galactic war that threatens millions of innocent lives.John Crichton has spent the last four years lost in a far distant region of the galaxy with many amazing alien species, but nothing he has encountered has prepared him for the journey about to come. With Aeryn, his alien love, about to give birth to their first child, Crichton finds himself in the middle of nothing less than a galactic war that threatens millions of innocent lives.