'- 'The Traverse' Exploration Monitoring Report -
'* Proxima Centauri System - temporal disturbances increasing
'* Proxibee Frequency Research Institute base - 27 scientists unaccounted for
'* Military Space Force - en route
'* Admiral Victoria Heartness and Doctor Vilanna Szuki - cannot establish contact
'* First contact situation likely
'* Space Station X-1a - robot uprising in progress
'* Unable to connect base
'* Warning - alien threat
'* Extrapolations indicate - danger to the universe
'- New contact: Establishing connection -
'= The Stellar Flash must be destroyed ='
(Source: publisher's blurb)