One hundred and fifty years has passed since the world came to a devastating end. Now, with a need to secure dwindling resources for their recovering population, the Compendium of Man has begun sending maned missions beyond the coastal wire. What they didn't expect, was the strength or ingenuity of the locals. After downing an aircraft and capturing a soldier, Bato begins to learn the true machinations of the intruders weapons. But his meddling will result in the two societies coming head to head. Will his people survive against their far more advanced aggressors, or will the world once again be conquered by humanity.