A few years after the end of the Sex War, a handful of veterans enjoy a reunion. These women were all in at the start; in fact, three of them took part in the same first day operation. The seaside villa belongs to Raz Terrennn, whose senior rank in the starforces means she spends most of her time in space, but she returns here at every opportunity. Zelira Terrennn, sister of Raz, chats happily to her old friend and namesake, Zelira Marel. Zelira Terrennn has gone back to her former career of terraforming, where technological leaps have given her new capabilities that she only dreamt of before the war. Zelira Marel, on the other hand, like Raz, remains a starsoldier, now organising the defences of free space in the face of the growing aggression of the Solar Bloc. Eileen Addison continues her revolutionary work into enhancing the human mind. For the first time and very largely at her urging, mind-implants are now being made available to the male population, too. The final guest has not previously attended one of these reunions. He is the Terrennns' older brother, who suffered the ignominy of having to surrender the men's last stronghold to his own sister. At the time, Raz teased him mercilessly, but they have since been more than reconciled; he takes abundant pride from his little sister's achievements as one of the best-known StarGirl commanders. Raz has been fretting, because her brother insists on using one of those lethal MonoFliers to get around. Now that men are permitted to use teleportation, it would be far easier and safer to transmit him to her villa by bouncing the beam via the transmission-node in her starship. Still, he's almost here now. P6 and Vue