Captain Stanley 'Swift' Travis just wants to flee his past to make right his life, but things just go from bad to worse as fate forces him to ally with his enemies and alienate his friends. Altered on a cellular level, microbial machines, errant energy, and an old well-weathered space-ship change him forever. Do these changes offer him hope or make him a prisoner? A monstrous machine is coming to destroy everything in its path. Spitting fire and raining death, it finds Travis armed only with Sal's legacy, a legacy that has just now has fallen into his lap. The monster's power off the charts, its skin, impenetrable. No weapon in Travis's arsenal can match it. Yet, he is the world's only hope. Is he defeated? Can nothing stop this horrific machine that threatens them all?