Story, continuation of “Kidonian”. Kelles Hartree is an engineer responsible for the performance of the InterNetwork in the remote Priority region. His days are boring and filled only with work routine. One day he witnesses the instantaneous disappearance of millions of people and decides to find out the cause of the disaster at all costs. A little later, in the gloomy taiga forests of Tybenna, a transport ship with a Kydonian landing party crashes. The only survivor, Her Majesty's Esquire Oliver Skoshgard, must team up with a mysterious creature called the Scourge if he wants to understand the cause of the mass abductions and return home in one piece.