In the second instalment of Ch0n's chronicles, we follow Ch0n's development away from his space capsule, as well as that of the Arw'an tribes and the Knight, Jez. Despite winning the war and the peace, there is no rest for Ch0n and his army. A passing ship tries to capture Ch0n and take him back to Earth. He evades capture and in doing so, finds himself with four reluctant castaways who will have to adapt to life on Arw'an or die at the hands of a ruthless and non-trusting Karin. As part of their exploratory expeditions, Ch0n and Karin discover some ruins and caverns where it appears there...

Ch0n is a cloned space commando marooned accidentally on a resource-rich, earth-like planet inhabited by strange plants, mammals, reptiles, birds and iron-age humanoid sapients when his landing craft crashes and his companions are all killed.. He is ordered by the commander of the mother ship to log everything he sees, does and finds during the estimated seven years a rescue mission will take. Chon finds himself reluctantly involved in an inter-tribal war that sees him deploy his far superior weaponry and tactical know-how in an attempt to unite the three warring tribes, the Arw'an, Buq'ue...