16+ Lem Gross is the captain of his own spaceship—he makes a living by doing mercenary work. He saves people by correcting the shortcomings of the giant corporation Zeyd. The head of this organization, Notan Zeyd, receives technologies and information from an alien superrace. Fate brings Gross and Zeyd’s Chief together so that… to save not a hundred people from a space shuttle… but humanity itself! The mission was classified for many years so that the Union of Interplanetary Races wouldn’t be able to interfere. And the threat to Earth and its inhabitants comes precisely from that Union—which, practically, has already used up almost all the resources of humans and Earth. The Chief and Lem Gross set off on a large, risky interplanetary journey that may become salvation… or the death of Earth and its people. Everything is on the line! Besides, Zeyd has plans to turn the earthlings into… something else.