Shoulder to shoulder, they fought their way toward their goal through all the dangers of alien spaces. Fanatics of the Flaming Cross met them with fire, while the rangers of the Ark attacked relentlessly; mechoids launched furious assaults, and numerous traps lay in wait. And ahead of them was a mythical Bright Tunnel that would cleanse the infected of skorks, and a mysterious scorksiuium capable of shifting the balance of power in the endless confrontation with the monstrous creations of the technohouse. By dark irony of Fate, it was precisely they who had to save all the stalkers of the Five Zones from instant death.