It is 2076: Lancer, Earth's first starship, is on a mission to find
interstellar civilizations. Although astronaut Nigel Walmsley's
experiences with alien encounters make him the expert, no one believes
Nigel's theory that machines are the dominant intelligent beings left in
the galaxy and that their purpose is to annihilate all organic life.
Then the explorers discover once-living planets where only machines
remain - and ruined worlds where fugitive survivors must evade
omnipresent and lethally advanced A.I. warships. By the time the crew of
Lancer realizes that Nigel is right, it will be too late - for the
machines have already found Lancer...and Earth.