Voyager 1 was launched in September 5,1977, and Voyager 2 was launched on August 20,1977, both probes began a historic journey with unique time capsules onboard intended to communicate a story of our world to extraterrestrials. They are the only probes to ever explore interstellar space--the galactic ocean that our sun and its planets travel through. The Voyager message is carried by a phonograph record 12-inch gold-plated copper disk containing sound and images selected to portray Earth's diversity of life and culture. One of the sub-themes in my novel is that once the disk was decoded by an alien mystic named Watar Muddy, one song resonated with him titled Dark was the night, Cold was the ground by Blind Willie Johnson, Watar Muddy said " his music has revolutionized how being across the galaxies react to sound waves. It is like the whoosh of the doppler effect as a meteorite whizz through the heliopause.

Meanwhile Captain Toussaint Barack Williams and his crew travel to Terrodome Galactic Prison 4.2 light-years from Earth. To squash an insurrection.