The deer's cry

In the Earth year 453 by the Common Reckoning, a small fleet of ships left Ireland, carrying emigrants seeking a new home in a far land. But the seas they crossed were not the wild Western Ocean, nor were the ships they sailed the leather-hulled boats of later legend. Those ships were starships; the oceans the dark starry gulfs of space itself. The new world they sought was distant double-ringed planet, and though this great heroic voyage was indeed led by a man called Brendan, he was no Christian navigator-monk but the son of a mortal lord and princess of the Sidhe. And when magic began to die in Ireland, he took the best of Celtdom to the stars.