When Rye Fresnel leads a Seize, Implant, and Release team into hostile territory to tag some locals for remote study, the group is attacked, and the only son of the head of the Mure Council of Seven is killed in the ambush. But Procina Vozdayanya is determined that her son's sacrifice for colony expansion will not be in vain, and she now has an excuse to proceed with testing and release of the docilification virus, specially engineered to turn the...