Flight of the Maita

Forstbook of series. The situation and continuing characters are introduced. A Terran and several others are kidnapped by an insectoid race. The Terran, Z, leads a revolution and manages to take over the shoip, which he names "Maita". Maita is intelligent, built by a race that is now possiobly extinct-
But is Z from a raace that crashed on Sol 3 a hundred and thirty thosand t`years ago? Will he ever know for sure?