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Peacekeeper control has the regrettable ability to spread, like an infection, to the remotest parts of the universe. Even the Uncharted Territories, though incredibly vast, are no longer free of that foul race's influence. A fact we all discovered when a lone Peacekeeper vessel leaking fuel boarded Moya in the middle of what we'd previously thought was deep space.

Posing as a Peacekeeper captain, Crichton formed an uneasy alliance with the four PK Commandos and discovered they were en route to a secret Peacekeeper base less than 20 arns away. Their leader, Larraq, needed to deliver a mysterious crate to this base and proceeded to commandeer Moya from "Captain" Crichton to travel the last leg of his journey.

The rest of us played along with the human's ruse; Aeryn, Chiana, and myself posing as his subordinates, and D'Argo, Zhaan, and Rygel pretending to be his prisoners. While Aeryn tried to glean more information from Larraq, Rygel and Chiana's curiosity got the best of them and they secretly opened the PK's crate.

In doing so, they released an intelligent virus onto Moya that was virtually undetectable and, in its current "single infection stage," could take complete possession of another organism. But if this parasite was allowed to gestate in a single host for even an arn, it could lay several million spores and exponentially seize control of a whole galaxy.

The Peacekeeper scientists, no doubt, intended to modify the parasite and produce a weapon capable of subjugating the entire universe. Within moments the virus had changed hosts several times and caused the deaths of two of the four Commandos. It moved so quickly that none of us could be sure within whom it was residing.

Larraq and Thonn, the commandos' second-in-command, were forced to accept help from Crichton's "prisoners" in order to find and contain the virus. But, with no way to trace the actual parasite, everyone became a potential host and a potential threat. With time running out, we had to devise a means to control the virus before the virus itself gained control of us — and the rest of the galaxy.