To Stand Beneath the Sun

A planet where women outnumber men 10 to one, where men are woshipped as Lords, but women still rule the planet. A ship called the "Sailing Star" is in a decaying orbit around the planet. From the Sailing Star falls a pod containing Tom Perion, a strange man who speaks the "High" tongue understood only by the priestesses of Kalea. What is his origin? He claims to come from a ship called "Galileo", in which dozens of other humans are still in stasis. Can a man get the women rulers of Kalea to believe him in time to save the inhabitants of Galileo from a fiery plunge to the surface of Kalea?