During the 23rd century man has discovered faster-than-light travel and finally reached the stars. Galactic exploration has confirmed man's worst two fears. First, an alien warlike race with vastly superior technology does exist. The exploration fleet reported sentient structures which appear to have been annihilated eons ago, scattered all over the galaxy. The reports suggested that a single race dubbed "Hedoth" has systematically swept through galaxy and pulverized every sentient civilization. Three large Earth corporations, CorpoNations (Rimtech, Mil-Agro, and Neuropa), massed their war fleets nearby the Hedoth sector, only to discover that man's second worst fear was realized - that humanity is all alone in the universe. The Hedoth homeworlds were vacant...