War in the Planetary Union? Impossible! All violence was banned by the High Council thousands of years ago. But that's the possibility facing the universe's most peaceful galaxy when hostile lizardlike dragoons take over planet Alzor. Gogol blames himself -- and well, yeah, technically he stirred up the dragoons, but is it really his fault? The bigger problem is that if war does break out, how will the PU fight back without an army, weapons, or a leader? Rubidoux, Xela, and Arms Akimbo must go to the particularly violent world of RU1:2 -- better known to us as Earth -- and find an expert in hostility to convince the dragoons to give up. And who better than the brilliant but vertically challenged nineteenth-century general Napoleon? Unfortunately, Napoleon is a little busy trying to keep his own empire from falling apart. Will he take time off to help stop the dragoons? And even if he does, can Earth's most cunning military mind be trusted?