The confederation is starting to collapse politically and economically, allowing the 'possessed' to infiltrate more worlds. Quinn dexter is loose on earth, destroying the giant arcologies one at a time. As louise kavanag...The confederation is starting to collapse politically and economically, allowing the 'possessed' to infiltrate more worlds. Quinn dexter is loose on earth, destroying the giant arcologies one at a time. As louise kavanagh tries to track him down, she manages to acquire some strange and powerful allies whose goal doesn't quite match her own.