The Aurorian Commander was supremely confident. The directives of the Aurorian expedition had been met: capture the most intelligent or dangerous species from planets rich in needed resources, then transport them to Aurorica where genetic studies would pinpoint which genes to selectively target. As the Aurorians had demonstrated on nearly one hundred planets, once genetic markers of the target species are identified, the inhabitants can be sprayed like bugs and exterminated: the conquest of alien worlds made easy by toxic-DNA and genetic weapons of mass destruction. And then the unexpected. Telepathic shape-shifters whom the Aurorian scientists dismissed as Blobs, cloned the Commander and hijacked the Aurorian spacecraft. To make matters worse, the Blobs crashed the saucer-shaped ship near an island on an unexplored planet, Earth. Hundreds of alien captives who'd escaped to the island were slaughtering beach goers, hunters, pirates, and scientists. The Commander made a decision: humans who survived the carnage would be captured, along with the aliens who'd escaped, and taken to Aurorica for dissection and genetic analysis. All human life on Earth would be exterminated. Two of the human captives, Captain Gabriel and Major Rhett, had their own plans. With the help of a mysterious Hermit who was responsible for luring everyone to the island that day, the men hatched a plot to free their friends, kill the Aurorians, hijack the flying saucer, save Earth, save the galaxy, and... journey to the stars.