The final part of the acclaimed French space opera novel, which won the Space 2000 Prize in 1996 and was praised by Le Figaro as “one of the masterpieces of French science fiction.”

The stars go out one by one . From their distant stronghold, the spore rulers of Hyponeros pursue a program of erasure of the universe. The last hope of humanity are the warriors of silence. There must be twelve of them to penetrate the Indian annals. Will Mahdi Shari, helped by Zhek At-Skin, manage to bring them together in time? Tiksu Oti disappeared. Afikit, Yell, San Francisco and Phoenix are cryogenized and locked in glass sarcophagi. Oniki and Tau Fraim are hiding inside the coral shield of the planet Efren. And there remain three more people scattered around the world, who do not even suspect the importance of their role in the decisive clash with the Skaites. Meanwhile, the fallen Absurate knight meets a seer on the Sixth Ring, a young woman returns from a hundred-century exile, Barophila of the Twenty-fifth, the muffi of the Kreutz Church, visit strange revelations, and Tiksu Oti, after long wanderings, arrives at a dead star...