After Republic technology ironically exonerates Ki-Adi-Mundi, the man fighting its import, he is sent to arrest the true killer. The criminal is his young daughter’s boyfriend, Maj-Odo-Nomor, who has inducted her into a youth swoop gang, the «Techrats«. Hiding out in the outsider citadel, the children have struck up an unlikely alliance with Chevin smuggler Ephant Mon. Only after a scuffle in the citadel leaves an old friend dead, does the truth finally come to light.
