The first volume of the critical Life and Times of Grant Elik, widely known as 'the Great Gunner,' who used revolutionary action in the Interstellar Armed Fleet to hold sway in the Outer Worlds later in the present millennium. The adventure is described from the standpoint of a 'debunking'' writer working at the epoch's end. The author applies liberal ironic humour to the task, facing the self-imposed challenge to produce a work of the future having some measure of literary merit in the category of futuristic pages in English.