In the future, the Earth - the cradle of humanity - has been relegated to the role of a third-rate planet. Its elite - the “pure” ones - live in the Domes and enjoy all the benefits of civilization, while everyone else flaunts clothes made of dog skins and lives in ruins, enjoying the consequences of an environmental and man-made disaster. Richard Kray is one of these others. However, he, being a member of a not universally respected, but necessary organization for everyone in the Galaxy - the Guild of Assassins, managed to acquire the latest scientific development and take possession of the secret of immortality and therefore turned out to be very inconvenient for the powers that be. In the struggle for immortality, they are ready to commit any meanness and crime, and the Edge has to enter into an unequal battle with the System itself...