Ego - Merger. Artificially created world. The world of a gigantic River flowing through space. The world of its coasts and its islands, its secrets and its mysteries. This is the Merger. A world that has become home to thousands of strange races, whose genome was transformed by the once mysterious Guardians, who long ago disappeared somewhere in a black hole. A world abandoned by its gods. A world to which the Ancients have recently returned - the ancestors of the Guardians, heretical gods lost in time and space of the neighboring galaxy. This is the Merger. The world to which Yama once came. The child that was found on the chest of a dead woman in a white boat sailing along the Great River. A child who grew into a strange young man - a young man capable of controlling the machines that reign over the peoples of the Confluence. A child of the river, who will become either the savior or the destroyer of the world of Confluence. For he is FREE. Free will brings change. And the world of Mergence is alive only as long as it remains unchanged.