2043: Acting Sgt. Zaratustra of the exotrooper corps is out on his first mission, a rescue expedition to the most uninhabitable and inaccessible part of Antarctica. There, a lost expedition's discovery has been rediscovered, unleashing a million-year-old extraterrestrial among an observatory's isolated crew. Sgt. Zed will find that nothing is as it seems, and even holding his own team together may be a trial too great to bear!