Book III begins on Gliese where Shayna, Mai Li and Cain Hollyroad have taken over the leadership of the new colony. Shayna is worried because they've heard nothing from Declan and Logan. She decides to contact Earth using the equipment Eddie set up before he left. Unfortunately, when she succeeds and contacts someone she's never heard of with the New LA Vagrants, she gets bad news. War has broken out in New LA and the Vagrant she's contacted, a...