2630. Humanity has made numerous advances: faster-than-light speed, laser pistols, ships and cyborgs that can and do kill by the hundreds . . .
The people of Earth have colonized six other planets, terraforming them to look much like the Earth the colonists came from. But despite their technological advances, humans have much to learn. Four of the seven worlds wage bitter wars against each other, for the same old reasons: resources, religion, intolerance.
When someone brutally attacks one of the neutral Colonies, Captain Brid Stephenson of the Earth ship Takarabune comes to their rescue. But she arrives too late; the enemy has fled, leaving behind unimaginable destruction.
The neutral Colonies are outraged. But what they discover next is something none of them ever expected: humanity’s greatest threat is not human.
Now the Colonies must band together to stop an alien threat that outnumbers and outguns them all.