As the victims of an evolutionary disaster called Galactic Whip Singularity (G.W.S.), the Popau escaped extinction by evacuating their doomed solar system in search of other habitable worlds. Traveling throughout the 22nd tendril of our galaxy, they found numerous less advanced societies with which to carry on trade. The Popau discovered that through the establishment of intergalactic trade laws, they could steer the economies of their inferior partners...