Journey to a future where humanity has colonized alien worlds, evolving into genetically distinct sub-species adapted to their environments. Witness the escalating tensions between groups like the bear-enhanced bors and the otter-hybrid mantee, teetering on the brink of interspecies war. Amidst ancient taboos and forbidden unions, a solitary figure, the Arbiter, emerges as the sole hope for resolution and understanding.
In a time when genengineered humans inhabit alien worlds, the bors, humans with bear genes, and the mantee, a human/otter mix, reach the brink of war when a man and a woman break the strongest taboo of their clans--and only the Arbiter has the answer.