Retake on The Odyssey as science fiction. In work For ten years the Polisian Space Navy, the fighting arm of the newly incorporated galaxy-wide Polisian Federation of Civilizations (consisting of two hundred and sixteen sentient species) fought a terrible war of attrition against an overwhelming space-faring race from beyond the galactic rim. A bellicose species whose incursions into the galaxy proper threatens annihilation everywhere. A secretive and mostly unknown species, as none has ever been captured or interrogated, they are dubbed, The Scourge, for such is their awful imprint on this corner of the universe.