Aruru and Connar fall out. He realizes quite quickly that their relationship is being exploited one-sidedly by the quasi-intelligence. She is not the substitute for Scarlett vanDyke as he had hoped. She is too non-human. Tarik Connar's body has been altered so that he is now no longer subject to the natural law of time correlation. He is transferred to TOHIKUM PANGAE on Earth through the Chron Bastion located in the asteroid ship. Unfortunately, something goes wrong and there is a time shift. He finds himself in the year 2022.