The Queenships are awake. Kato Ozark has trained his entire life to be a queenship pilot, chosen by a sentient starship to lead a branch of his family into the future. He has the genetics and the knowledge, he just needs to prove his loyalty to the Ozark family. Not an easy task when his grandmother is the matriarch of the Dhar family and Ozark's primary rival. First Engineer Mas'ud wants nothing more than to serve on a queenship and...