On a distant planet, in a remote garrison, time moves slowly and days seem the same. But battle-robot pilots who have been stranded there by the will of fate can’t just sit around. The garrison fights, and the pilots keep going on risky reconnaissance raids.
And though sometimes it seems they’ve been forgotten, soon everything will change. Intelligence reports a powerful race that has decided to “shut down” the Big Sector project. And to save human civilization, the Global Security Service launches a daring special operation—one in which there will be room for Jack Stanton, his pilot friends, and the universal Ferlin, who is ready to apply his special skills…