Do you know where humanity came from, why dinosaurs disappeared, why Mars lost its atmosphere, and where Phaeton disappeared, who and why visits Earth on super-fast starships, and who is God?! The race of wise contemplators of the Arm of Orion are the Irgars and their heirs, successors of Ift's right, gray effrey youths and have learned a lot over tens of millennia of their civilizations, but the Earth still holds secrets. There has been a war for thousands of years for the right to learn the secrets of the Sowers.