It looked like the 'End of Days' for mankind. All human life on Earth had been wiped out. Or so thought the Molodni starship Captain as his moon-sized craft left Earth's solar system after seeding the planet with a 'pesticide' designed to wipe out all life with an intelligence above a certain level. He shouldn't have been in such a hurry to go home. Because there were survivors; widely scattered individuals who recovered from the attack and who found that they had suffered some rather interesting changes. These survivors who had each originally thought they were the only one left eventually located each other and discovered what had been done to them and their planet. They came together, learned to use the changes that had occurred in them, and ended up teaching the Molodni a lesson. The lesson? We bite back