This is part of the continuing story which began as The Right Thing, through The Great Space Pirate, Search for the Sakari.

It is during the Inclusion ceremony when the ZerShaz conquerors must travel to each planet, those they held before the war, and those they had captured after defeat of the Terrans.

Sharon, who had been psi-probed, so is without memory, is on a planet called Shalimar which has been captured and Included.