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 In a far flung future, planoforming boats knit together an universe dominated from Planet by the callous benevolence of the mystical Lords of the Instrumentality, who presided over a paradise without demise, danger—or independence. The Underpeople, humanlike creatures made from creatures to complete the job of paradise, had no privileges, and might be discarded at the whim of the human. However they had be humanlike than their designers, and their chief, the kitten lady C’Mell, had an agenda for attaining their freedom—which created her way too dangerous an individual to be allowed to reside. Elsewhere in the universe, the earth Norstrilia had energy of its, for this was the only real supply of stroon, the medication which created people immortal and caught aging.