300,000 years ago, on a planet in the unexplored region of the Universe, an escape pod landed. The female alien that emerged from it was treated as a goddess by the primitive tribes that lived there. The Church of the Fundamentalists that arose from her teachings carried forth its mission for hundreds of millennia until the day that they were once more visited by aliens. But are they really what they seem to be? The Goddess of the Gillani is a sequel to Colony Ship New Hope which is a sequel to Second Contact which is the second book of The Chaos Trilogy . It is also the third Cassiopeia Adventure .