Book 10: Eventide
Eventide is a terra (Alpha) -class planet in orbit around a pair of orange dwarf suns in the system 9C 4112 Scorpius. The planet's topography is unusually in that millions of years ago, it was battered by a prolonged bombardment of comets and asteroid, leaving enormous craters over 4/5ths of its surface that have since filled in and become seas. The remaining twenty percent of the planet that is land consists of islands and archipelagos that form the rims of the submerged craters.Furthermore, though the planet is warmed by the suns, it receives much less light than is usual, only about 1/5th of the sunlight of Sapphire or Republic, which makes daylight a kind of rich twilight. Deep geothermal springs also warm the planet, and provide abundant energy for its inhabitants.
> Pegasus,, severely damaged after the battle at Gethsemane, arrives at Eventide, they finally meet the alien race known as The Kariad. The Kariad have been moving through the galaxy attempting to enlighten human colonies and reform each colony€™s culture to their own standards, often with disastrous results. Commander Keeler challenges The Kariad to leave the world and let the humans work things out for themselves. But The Kariad refuse to leave unless Keeler can persuade the colonists to reject their assistance.