Void

As Mark Tysdale, Mary his wife, and granddaughter Mary Anne leave the rest of their family and head off into deep space, they leave behind other family members who now had to work and live together to survive. After an initial bad start they then started to coalesce into a cohesive unit.

Mark’s eldest son Toby now comes to the fore and leads the rest of the family outward into the deeper reaches of space and time. Here they meet entities unlike any that have been seen before and begin to realize that life in all its various forms exists in the most inhospitable places.

Some of these forms or forces are friendly and others are not so, but they each have their own unique attributes from which the family members learn. As they travel through space and time, they realize that their children have evolved far beyond recognized standards of human capabilities.

Their journey takes them to systems and planets that contain life in many forms. At the same time, their children start to grow up and display the vast potential they have as not just human beings but that they are further along the evolutionary trail. The children display talents and abilities that see them able to communicate over vast distances and one family member in particular who is able to transcend all others with the power of her mind.