From the introduction: The inhabitants of planet Klarrg are in a dire situation. A deadly plague is sweeping across their empire. In a last ditched effort to save their civilization, they hurriedly gathered Klarrg’s finest for a mission of the utmost importance. There, in the small town of Jefferson in the southern United States of America, on planet Earth, lives a woman (Jenny Dawson) whose genes carry the cure – or so Klarrg’s scientists believe.