Five years after attacking human-colonized worlds of the Spiral Arm, the enigmatic hydrogues maintain absolute control over the galaxy's gas giant planets On Earth, the corrupt government is exploiting the cабяерrisis, tightening an iron grip on rebellious colonies while seeking to dominate the other humans throughout the galaxy Earth's alien "friends," the seemingly gentle Ildirans, are secretly abducting and breeding people in enforced sex camps And the governmenавсянt is using military robots to build cybernetic legions to fight the war, robots that have exterminated their own makers and may turn on mankind.