STARMAN'S PROGRESS

The colonization of other world's has reached an impasse with Galunity (the union of six colonized worlds plus Earth as an ancillary member) frozen by a rigid personality classification administered by the Institute of Psychometrics on the capital world, Maybar. Even on the sole independent world of Endelve, psychological progress both personal and societal has ceased due to an overly reverential attitude towards its long-dying founder, Danja Fortal.
On Maybar, the green-star Crito Plebson, now suspects that the water-maze trial that he must undergo to gain promotion to blue-circle, may well be rigged to cause his death.