lieutenant commander shawn "calvin" hobbs has saved seattle, traveled to the stars and forged new alliances with alien races. with the latest war concluded, he turned his attention to deciphering the strange rod an ancient alien civilization gave him as a test. was a little "down time" to work on the project too much to hope for? yes. something or someone is destroying the starships of the alien aesir race. the elven aesir are in need of help, and all of the signs point to calvin as the hero they need. he has already defeated the merciless drakuls and saved earth from alien invasion, but is he prepared to face this unknown challenge? as the theogony trilogy comes to a close, a new chapter for calvin is set to begin. "the search for gram" initiates the "codex regius," a trilogy that will once again take lieutenant commander hobbs and his special forces platoon to the stars. not even the universe can hold him this time!