When Earth's Stiletto-class space fighters entered the atmosphere of the insect planet, its inhabitants were practically finished. Ruins of cities, wrecks of warships and millions of corpses - that’s all that remains of one of the many Families of a race of intelligent insects. The pilots from Earth had no idea that there was one survivor lurking among the ruins. And that it was he, an insect named Hosh, who was to decide in the future the outcome of the titanic battle for dominance over the Galaxy! The only question is: in whose favor?..