The people of Ardonnar fall for the aliens who promise to help in their time of need. However, the true mission of the Ineans is soon learned and the people fight back against the invaders.

The Ineans, however, would discover a use for the Ardonnarian people and choose to hold off annihilating them. Choosing instead to enslave them for their insidious purpose.

This delay allows groups of resistance fighters, working together across their planet to keep the Ineans off balance. This gives the military, working on a small moon called Anaru, time to build hybrid bombers to attack the Ineans.

With time running out for the Ardonnarians, they take the fight to the Ineans.

Shawn Hackett, a starship captain, suffering the effects of a grueling torture he endured on a previous visit to the planet Inea, must return. This time to broker peace with the violent aliens and secure the technology to repair Earth's climate before it is too late. However, while traveling to Inea, Hackett unravels a sinister plot coming from the highest levels of Earth's government that threatens their lives and the success of the mission. As the mission falls apart, Hackett makes a deal with an unlikely ally and now the race is on to sign the deal and get out, alive if possible.