sentences:  The entire race of Saunn on Comagrave, asleep in a state of suspended animation for thousands of years, start to wake up.A Commonwealth peaceforcer responds to a distress signal on the intermittently appearing planet Quofum and rescues three scientists, two human and one thranx, missing for over four years.Clarity and Flinx decide to marry, doing so on the planet Alaspin before deciding to settle on the planet Cachalot.