Space vendetta began centuries before the birth of Masato Igarashi Storm. His grandfather attacked the planet Prefactle and perpetrated a massacre, freeing human slaves from their Sangari masters. But one of the sangaris survived. The young heir to the Norbon clan vowed revenge on the Storm family and their soldiers. He came up with a sophisticated plan that could take several generations to implement. And now Gnei, Masato's father, is forced to fight for the riches that the fiery half of the planet Chernomir keeps in itself. While powerful private armies from all over space converge in battle on the narrow Shadow Line, which separates the blazing hell from the life-giving shadow, Gnei's half-brother Michael plays his own game - the fatal game of a traitor.