The appearance of the warp drive from a long lost spaceship, the Fenrir, triggers an epic quest for the rest of the ship, a mission led by Captain Mikhail Volkov. According to the drive's computers, Fenrir had been lost to a hypothetical "nowhere" of subspace, but since the drive's housing is covered with coral and sea life, obviously Fenrir has gone somewhere. Faced with genocide at the hands of the aliens known as the nefrim, humans need a miracle to survive. On the chance that Fenrit's mysterious location holds such a miracle, Mikhail jumps into the unknown and crashes into the endless blue ofthe Sargasso.<BR>He and his surviving crew discover a vast graveyard of rusting spaceships, human and alien. On the Sargasso's great oceans, humans live alongside the minotaur, the hak, the civ and the obnao. His ship damaged, his younger foster brother lost, and his sanity rattled, Mikhail discovers a secret that might save the human race - but only if he can repair his ship and return home.