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Chandos Ring — Book Two Argument.

Voices appear to Aaron and his crews. He finally executes judgment on the killer, Stendahl - a sentence he has long delayed for unknown reasons. Aaron hopes that after Stendahl's death his voice will also return to them to tell Aaron what astrology of space has been entered. Are there new laws of Being that he is still unaware of? This plan has other consequences. The men are growing restless and losing faith in their mission so far from Earth. There is a crisis of faith that the crews will all survive to see another future of men. The crew begins to repeat rumors of Aaron's strange birth..

The Commander Vargus arrives with 13 Russian ships containing the last pilgrims from dying Earth. He has with him 300 Slavic women, from the former Russian Federation. This changes the military structure of Ring World, since for the first time there is a large population of Civilians under his command. The strains on Aaron are almost to the limit of his competence. He retreats inwardly into his plans for a future galaxy of strange new Beings. Will they be human men? Has Aaron rejected the female creature in his effort to cope with his challenges?

He makes Vargus his second in command and sends him with a mission to Europa. At Europa Vargus is to extract a new supply of water and to place the tiny moon, Metis, on a course of collision with Europa. The same plan is made for Thebe. Aaron's plan (or was it Talon's plan originally?) is to create the conditions of future human life on Europa by burning off some of the water and creating a stronger atmosphere on this planet. It is a audacious and challenging risk to attempt to change the tectonics of another planet - the first time ever attempted by humans - in effect to grow our own planets for our continued human survival outside of Earth.

Tan-Dem, his alien son, in now called by his people Cheda, meaning "He talks to God". Aaron is challenged not by other men in his command, he is challenged by the appearance of two strange girls, one human girl from earth and one from Callisto that arrives in the company of his son Cheda. He never expected a challenge from this quarter. Despite his faith in poetry, Aaron relies on his rational mind to hold together his practical command essentially a military enterprise. Does this imbalance summon the arrival of the Great Goddess to destroy him?