In the most secret special organization of the League of Civilized Worlds, which holds the secret of the Gvardia’s teleportation, a conspiracy is ripening: after three hundred years of selfless service to maintain order, uphold law, and save lives, a group of gvardia troops plans betrayal. The gvardia kill gvardia, disregarding losses among the civilian population. But that’s only one of the problems of the Gvardia.
Somewhere in another temporal stream wanders the Master—an emissary of the polymorph civilization destroyed millions of years ago—carrying out plans to destroy the entire human race. Interplanetary terrorist number one, Grissom, is preparing to strike again. Corporations keep gnawing at each other over profitable contracts and don’t shy away from any means to achieve their goals. The Yakuza move out of the shadows… And only the ten-thousand-strong Gvardia corps, torn apart by the Third Crisis, can stand in their way.