 Avon convinces the warlord Zukan to form a alliance against The Federation by manufacturing a antidote to The Federation s drugs that control the citizens. Zukan is a traitor and is working for Serverlan and has betrayed the Anti-Federation Alliance and Serverlan has trapped Tarrant, Dayna and Zukan s daughter Zeeona in Xenon base and unleashed a virus. With the demise of Zukan, Avon and the Scorpio travel to Soolin s home-planet, Gauda Prime, a lawless planet where Orac has pinpointed the location of former rebel leader Roj Blake who is now a bounty hunter and has given up fighting the Federation. But Avon and the Scorpio crew suspect Blake is a traitor and has sold out to the Federation.