Humans...a young race, brash, backward, ignorant, warlike and sometimes cruel. Yet showing great universal promise. The universe's protectors, the Elder race known as the Bnt'avar have chosen humanity to replace them as they leave this universe for another. With a gift of celestial knowledge acquired over 400 million years of study, the human evolution to the stars is being kick-started with a bang. Lying in wait are many aggressive predator races eager to claim the gifts and the position. Will the earth be able to survive the onslaught of higher life forms? Will the new protectors be able to match the cunning and savagery of more established races and fulfill the role of being the universes protectors?