THE MAGI HAD MASTERED THE NEW PHYSICS and harnessed the newly discovered power of the elemental harmonies--Alchemy. In doing so, they changed the facr of technology for all time. But it was pilots like Silence Leigh who conquered the starlanes. Silence herself dreamed of a ship--a ship of her own and a destiny removed from the Hegemony's oppression. But not untill she joined the crew of the Sun Treader did the dream take on reality...and a destiny never imagined became Silence's own as well.