One by one colonies on the edge of the Milky Way are turned into dark husks as Old Earth stalks from planet to planet, devouring all life.
Terra Nox is next, and a covert agent from Old Earth is already making strides to ripen it for the harvest. Some know the truth and are trying to prepare defenses, but first they need to win a civil war.
Blake Drummond leads a team made up of mech infiltrators and the Ascendedhumans modified to be virtually immortalto sabotage key enemy facilities and end the war in time. Yet there are forces fighting him, both the Old Earth agent and his former partner Tara Linheld, now turned counterintelligence.