When a corrupt government meets an incorruptible army there is only one solution: Extermination. Admiral Beijing York volunteers his army of Synthetically-Enhanced soldiers on a mission to settle a new planet. Bei and his cyborgs hope to gain freedom and equality. Instead, they encounter death and hardship on a one-way trip to nowhere. Bei has two choices: die slowly in space, or return to Earth and make the Humans who betrayed them pay. When Nell Stafford passed out it was 2012. When she wakes up naked aboard a starship it's 2138, and she's surrounded by Syn-En carrying a grudge against Humans like her. But Nell gained something in her 120-year sleep; somehow, she knows everything the Syn-En need to survive. Now she must convince Bei and his people to trust her--as soon as she learns to trust the mysterious intelligence.