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Jarzen Tadel and his family live on the peaceful agrarian planet Elapsis, and are easy prey for the Tar-Que, whose high council is obsessed with developing anything that will provide them with an intellectual advantage in a war in their home solar system. A scientist befriends Jarzen and sets him on a path to higher education. Jarzen runs afoul of the governor and is condemned to a horrible project as a human test subject; a project trying to harvest the vast energy of lightning to supercharge and expand the human mind, whose subjects have an almost zero survival rate. Jarzenas body is safely strapped to a large, metal chair with wires, electrodes, and probes attached directly to his brain. The full fury of an ion storm is in its lightning, which has a direct line into Jarzenas brain. Something goes terribly right. Lab rat no morea]