The barque cats, mistaken for a public health hazard, flee Earth for the feline-dominated planet, Mau, with the help of Pshaw-Ra, a mysterious cat with his own spaceship. Oddly, no one--including the humans--is bothered that he plans to take over the universe on behalf of felinekind.

The Systems Commonwealth, the greatest civilization in history, has fallen. Now, Captain Dylan Hunt finds himself 300 years in the future after being rescued from a black hole by a salvage ship. Committed to restoring the Commonwealth, Hunt recruits the ship's eclectic crew, but betrayal, corruption, and the persistent threat of the deadly aliens known as the Magog will put courage and loyalty to the ultimate test in Hunt's fight to rekindle the light...