sentences:  A wily negotiator who successfully coerced the humans into setting up a College to teach science to the Mesklinites in the previous novel, "Mission of Gravity", he has been secretly arranging for an independent Mesklinite colony to be set up on Dhrawn using the "Esket" as a base.This has been proceeding successfully for several months.Soon, however, the "Kwembly" is in very real trouble.