A global war began between people and the Alliance, which included most races. People are forced to retreat - new technologies are needed to win. A detachment of “filibusters” goes to meet with an artifact hunter in the Anomalous Zones, but due to the betrayal of their allies, people end up in another world (the Phoenix Branch), which is inhabited by descendants from the Phoenix ship that disappeared during the Exodus. Instead of helping them return home, they want to eliminate them as a possible threat.

As a result of the struggle for survival, the surviving “filibusters”, who have become natural pirates, still return home on a captured warship, which has absorbed themselves artifacts of the ancient people and the latest technological developments of people from the Phoenix Branch.