Worlds in Chaos

As the Galactic Trader enters a star system to unload a cargo of sleeping aliens, it encounters the debris of war scattered in all directions. Suddenly they become part of that war when nuclear tipped interplanetary missiles are launched in their direction. The system was supposed to be at peace, protected by the Sarkatas, a society of immortals. Instead, there is no sign of them, their world concealed by a strange shroud, the other worlds at war.
It becomes Captain Virginia Stoll's role to establish peace between the worlds.in chaos. To do this she must break through the shroud to find the immortal Sarkatas and restore their role as protectors of the worlds of mortals.
In doing this she discovers that the war was initially between two worlds of robotic societies, a war that spread to other worlds.
Virginia and Commander Abor are forced to battle the robots to free their enslaved creators. While doing this a mysterious spaceship appears to assist them.
They discover he is a Sarkatas, the most gifted of them all, the one responsible for placing them them into their ephemeral state, and the shroud. She finds that he is both incredibly intelligent and a misfit among his people, just like her. Virginia begins to question who she is when she learns that the mysterious Sarkatas has discovered a strange element in his DNA that shares with one in her DNA.
Before she can investigate further, she is drawn into further conflicts between the mortal worlds. In order stop these wars, she must awaken all the Sarkatas to again take control, a mission thought impossible
Virginia is faced with the tasks of terminating the robots, ending the war between worlds, and restoring the role of the Sarkatas in controlling this star system. While doing this, she must resolve the mystery of what this strange DNA segment she shares with that mysterious Sarkatas means to who she really is.