-Our protagonists, Sherkaner Underhill (mad scientist extraordinaire), Gen. Victory Smith (military prodigy, and Underhill's wife), and Sgt. Hrunkner Unnerby (an engineer, and Underhill and Smith's friend and comrade from the Great War) are spider-like nonhuman aliens native to a planet whose star mysteriously "turns off" for [TODO] years out of every [TODO].
+Our protagonists are spider-like nonhuman aliens native to a planet whose star "turns off" for [TODO] years out of every [TODO].
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+Sherkaner Underhill (mad scientist extraordinaire), Gen. Victory Smith (military prodigy, and Underhill's wife), and Sgt. Hrunkner Unnerby (an engineer, and Underhill and Smith's friend and comrade from the Great War)