Late in the twenty-sixth century, the human race has advanced enough to accidentally trigger the inhibitors - alien killing machines designed to detect intelligent life and destroy it. The only hope for humanity lies in ...Late in the twenty-sixth century, the human race has advanced enough to accidentally trigger the inhibitors - alien killing machines designed to detect intelligent life and destroy it. The only hope for humanity lies in the recovery of a secret cache of doomsday weapons -and a renegade named Clavain who is determined to find them.