Why is the world named after the person who was a stranger to it—a newcomer from elsewhere? Because the planet owes Rokanonn its life. The inhabitants of an unnamed planet didn’t know about the danger threatening them, and they wouldn’t have been able to defeat the galactic criminals who wanted to set up a base here—wouldn’t have, if not for ethnologist Rokanonn and, through him, the League of All Worlds, an organization he was a representative of.