Koli and his companions finally arrive at the source of the signal they have been searching for, and in no way are they prepared for what they find. Sailing through the fog and coming upon what initially appears to be a giant metal wall in the water turns out to be a carrier ship larger than anything they could imagine. This ship, Sword of Albion, is a giant warship, yet it is inhabited by only a few people, and they are strange indeed. Lorraine and Paul Banner, who both appear to be friendly, and their son Stanley, who appears to be quite mean and very erratic. Paul is clearly a military man who expects to run an orderly ship and Lorraine appears to be a loving Mom doing her best to prevent her mischievous son from getting into hot water with his antics, yet it is obvious to Koli that something is not right with the lot of them. Lorraine is are also very interested in having Ursala upgrade her medical diagnostic unit so she can treat Stanley and correct some kind of genetic problem. Not sure if they are guests or prisoners, Koli and crew need to sort out the truth of the situation, or die trying...

Koli Faceless, Ursala-from-Elsewhere, and Cup were a strange combination of traveling partners, but they each had their reasons for being part of the group heading towards London. Koli wanted to find the city of London, which was from the before-times when tech used to be plentiful, and he hoped to find some tech there to heal people like those in his former village so they could all have healthy children. Ursala had no real hope of finding London, but the signal they had picked up from Sword of Albion intrigued her enough to head towards it, and that meant heading in the same direction. Cup was more of a prisoner than a traveling partner, but Ursala did not trust the feral girl, and nothing Koli said could convince Ursala to grant Cup her freedom. And don't forget about Monono, the virtual girl that lived inside the DreamSleeve, the old tech that Koli had wakened thus causing him to be expelled from his village. An odd bunch trying to survive and do some good in a hostile world that was trying to kill them in all manner of different ways.