Synopsis: From the back cover of the DAW first edition: "The Universe and a man named Croyd - The policy of Sol Galaxy as that of planetary self-determination is historic hypocrisy. They will smother my Maudjinn and when they find out about us, out here between galaxies, they will come out and smother us. No! We must take total command of all the galaxies, first! We must reduce all of them to subjection, first! And we have the power, almost; but there are a few mental ingredients that we lack... and also there is a collection of antagonistic powers in a mind named Croyd You will go now to Sol. You will find this Croyd, enter him, neutralize his extraordinary powers, and bring him to me no more puissant than an ordinary man. And I will deal with him. And then we will master our galaxy and his galaxy and other galaxies, and the metagalaxy will finally be safe for the purity of our feudalism."