The quiet war is over. The city-states of Jupiter and Saturn fell to the Alliance of Three Forces: Greater Brazil, the European Union and the Pacific Community. The age of enlightenment, rational utopia, research of new images of humanity was replaced by a time of darkness. Distant ones are driven into prison camps, forced to help systematically plunder their huge archives of scientific and technical knowledge. Meanwhile, earthlings rob captured cities, farms and ships and prepare a "final solution" to the problem of distant...