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To evade a searching Marauder scout ship from Peacekeeper Captain Bialar Crais' Command Carrier, Moya hid behind a cloud of what appeared to be asteroid debris. We didn't find out until too late that the "debris" was actually a swarm of alien lifeforms — some of which invaded Moya.

These lifeforms, called Draks, possessed the ability to form replicants of Crichton, D'Argo, Aeryn, and Zhaan — physically identical duplicates who quickly began to take over Moya for their own purposes. They adjusted Moya's environmental controls so that the temperature rose to a level dangerous to Aeryn; her species is unusually sensitive to heat. Aeryn soon became weak and delirious — early symptoms of the Sebacean "Living Death," a type of brain fever that leads to a permanent coma. Feeling herself slipping away, Aeryn made Crichton promise to kill her if she indeed succumbed to the Living Death....

When we discovered that the Draks had sealed off a deep chamber of Moya, we sent a most reluctant Rygel through the vents to reconnoiter. Rygel found, to our amazement, that the Draks had come aboard Moya to create a warm nest so that they could breed.

After a Drak "stung" Zhaan and took over her voice and body, we were able to communicate directly with the Draks. Finding that they meant us no deliberate harm, Crichton tried to work out a truce with them. However, with Moya's senses "blinded" by the Drak takeover, we had no way of knowing that armed Peacekeeper Commandos from the Marauder scout ship had also boarded Moya — and were killing every Drak replicant they could see.

The Drak Monarch inhabiting Zhaan was understandably furious that the Commandos were murdering her children; she threatened to raise Moya's temperature further and kill every non-Drak aboard. Our fates now depended on Rygel using his negotiating skills to convince the Drak Monarch that we were fighting a common enemy — and on Crichton's cleverness and bravery in facing the invading Commandos....