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GM Star Knight and his squire crunched out of Hyperspace into the Koyash system. The Koyash system was forbidden. The reason was Koyash-3, an extraordinary gas giant planet with no core. It was held together by PSP - phase shift particles, a consequence of some strange internal quantum reaction. Perhaps its was the weird purple star, Koyash, perhaps it was some chemical reaction in the superheated centre of the planet, perhaps it was something else entirely. But Koyash-3 was a ball of nitrogen, carbon dioxide and oxygen much like earth. Freezing at the edges, hellish in the middle, and home to the dangerous and valuable phase shift particles. The only thing allowed near the Koyash system was Tulpar-1, an orbital station circling Koyash-3 and the only place in the known universe where one could mine PSP. An hour ago, it had sent a distress call. Power failure, computer failure. It had entered Free Fall, and was slipping into the upper atmosphere of Koyash-3...