The solar system is about to be destroyed!

No sooner has one of the last surviving humans delivered this bad news to the representatives of the Mendraki and the Iks than he disappears. Kimi, Norok, Tolkut, and Kasfok find themselves alone in a spaceship controlled by technology they do not understand, and together they must avert a threat whose source they do not know.

They have only one clue: They must locate the hidden supercomputer that preserves information about a dark chapter in the history of the strange bipeds - information that may save their peoples...