While hiking in Sierra Mountain range, Mike and Dan encounter a creature intent on their death. In the struggle, Mike stabs the creature with his knife and loses consciousness. Mike wakes to find Linda dressing his wounds and discovers he is hundreds of miles from the place he was attacked. Mike, Linda, Dan, and several others find themselves in an Ardian prison, created by an advanced alien empire on earth. The Ardian Empire has quelled a rebellion and placed war criminals and political prisoners as inmates in this dimensional prison on an underdeveloped planet, Earth. Mike discovers he was...