Late in the twenty-sixth century, the human race continued to advance - enough to accidentally trigger the Inhibitors. Now, fifty years later, these alien killing machines - designed to detect intelligent life and destroy it - are fast approaching.
In the face of this onslaught, the only hope for humanity lies in the recovery of a secret cache of doomsday weapons - and a renegade named Clavain is determined to find them. But other factions want the weapons for their own devices.
And the weapons themselves have another agenda altogether.