Four Galaxies In Peace

As humanity anxiously awaits the return of their astronauts from the first interstellar journey in Earths history, the travelers find themselves as guests to a technologically and biologically designed superior race of beings, on a planet fifty-four light-years away from home. The guests soon learn that the aliens, and their almighty robots, were both created by an ancient and mysterious society that has hidden its own existence from its creations for hundreds of thousands of years. The objective of the robots and aliens, the humans are told, is to maintain peace and order throughout four galaxies, including our own. When the astronauts attempt their perilous voyage home, something goes awry. The new friends of humanity are faced with a fateful dilemma: if they were to help the humans, would they be breaking the galactic law of non-interference?