While the inhabitants of the earth are mentally decomposing under the sweet yoke of cybernetic systems, a new empire called Cosmica is formed on the basis of the space settlements of the Earth with a population of mutants distributed by caste. They successfully combine supermanship in knowledge, skills and complete underdevelopment of feelings. They manage to achieve independence from the mother planet and defeat machines possessed by information “demons” in a bloody war. But here is a new misfortune. A representative of non-protein alien life, through its spore, ends up in the Mercury Prefecture, where it successfully germinates. The creature multiplies, absorbing the souls (psi structures) of people. But first she seduces them, granting them short-term power over inert matter. However, there is a hero who, with the help of planetary forces, saves human souls from becoming food for the Creature...