A planet that had been shattered by war millennia before, where the deadly radiations had driven mankind away from the coasts and deep into a strange barbarism. One that was able to build spaceships that enabled man to fly through the depths of space, but did not allow for television or radio...

In this world the radiation damaged Clane was not an obvious leader, but the radiation that had warped his body had worked more subtly on his mind and there were few who could match his intelligence!