INTRODUCTION

       Time went forward. Due to the discovery of hyperspace drive the mankind already felt at home in the nearest space sectors and started exploring the Galaxy. Having met not just one, but several intelligent races on the way, the humans realized how unlonely they were in this world. Each of the races had its own established views on life, its own philosophy and logic, all of which led to innumerable conflicts. But the world gradually changed, and so did the relations between the peoples. The boundaries of the inhabited Galaxy stretched further and further, and then time came for making alliances. Economic competition replaced military action. The world became so immensely huge that its synonym for humans was no longer the planet Earth, but the Galactic Commonwealth, consisting of representatives of the five allied intelligent races.

       Year 3000 came... Something strange and unnerving started happening. The outer systems of the explored Galaxy were attacked by an unknown race, the Klissans, who came from another part of the Universe. They invaded the undeveloped, and therefore, the least protected planets. Never answering pleads for negotiation, and hardly getting any resistance, the Klissans started capturing one planet after another, taking no regard of the people who lived on them.

       Inner contradictions and lack of political power rendered the Galaxy Council unable to create a centralized military structure for opposing the invaders. It could only develop a strategy that put the stake on the so called Rangers, volunteer fighters who were granted an extraordinary level of competence. Galaxy Council called on all those for whom the fate of their common home was not indifferent, to come forward and save the world.

       Never before the fate of the Galaxy depended so much on the will and luck of a handful of heroes...