An anxiety prone exterminator believes vermin are stalking him. Strange sounds from inside his walls. Crawling sensations under the sheets at night. Snide rats heckling him from the shadows. Low on patience and medication, he decides to fight back.

Pilot X comes from a race of time travelers called the Alendans. Can he prevent the destruction of the universe?

A century after the events of The Life Engineered, Capek civilization is once more brought to the brink...