With only two earth settlements orbiting Neptune and Saturn and the earth no longer habitable the Interstellar Committee continues to seek habitable planets. Sent to find missing scientists and reclaim equipment on a newly discovered square planet on the outskirts of the Milky Way, the Galactic Space Marines are not new to space exploration but it is Christian Drake, a simple mechanic, who finds himself the unexpected voice of sentient beings on a hostile planet which is battling to resist takeover during a planetary tribal war for survival.