For years, the third moon in the Alphane system was used as
a psychiatric hospital. But when war broke out between Earth and the Alphanes,
the hospital was left unguarded and the inmates set up their own society, made
up of competing factions based around each mental illness. When Earth sends a
delegation to take back the colony, they find enclaves of depressives,
schizophrenics, paranoiacs, and other mentally ill people coming together to
repel what they see as a foreign invasion. Meanwhile, back on Earth, CIA agent
Chuck Rittersdorf and his wife Mary are going through a bitter divorce, with
Chuck losing everything. But when Chuck is assigned to clandestinely control an
android accompanying Mary to the Alphane moon, he sees an opportunity to get
his revenge.