A gigantic space fleet of strange aliens—resembling, in appearance, the most terrifying human nightmares and dubbed “targs” by people—continues to methodically destroy human civilization. To make matters worse, yet another incompetent ruler appears again on the throne of the Empire.
Captain Heinrich Klose, the only one who might still be able to do something about this, fights the targs—at the edge of the Empire—as a mere fighter pilot. And he cannot understand why the targs are so insistently determined to destroy him…