In a galaxy ruled by Law and Equity where everything is under control, something purely evil finds a home within a single mind....
Aripax, a Synthetic organism who has demonstrated exceptional capabilites as a general technician, receives a rather unusual promotion. The Federation has selected it for an experimental consiousness transfer into the newest and most advanced prototype for its race. Hoping to acquire additional pschologically traits to make it more "human," Aripax decides to accept the proposal.
The transfer completes, and what awakens first is something far more than the Federation had bargained for. Disoriented and with only shadows of its past, LoDebar immediately demonstrates there is a genuine monster lurking within the mind of Aripax. Driven by an insane desire to destroy all things living, LoDebar struggles agaisnt Aripax and the Federation to accomplish this task. Finally free from the confines of the Bioengineering Division, LoDebar finds himself stranded on the planet Primmus One, where its half a billion citizens partake in the largest human holocaust ever experienced.
Only Andrus Helt and his small army, battered and broken by the "Fultra incident" and torn apart by betrayal, has any chance of stopping LoDebar, proclaimed to be "Messiah of the Sythnthetics." Can Helt prevent LoDebar from escaping the planet with his unstoppable army of two million frenzied with bloodlust against mankind?