After spending years in a mental facility Dr. William Daystrom is called upon by his friend and colleague Dr. Lauren Alvarado to track down a rouge spaceship, the M6 that was designed to replace humans in space travel. As he embarks on a mission to develop a new computer to track down the M6 he finds out that one of his students Dr. Bonner has secretly been working with a mysterious group of scientist called, The Black Moors that have taught him how to alter human and ape genetics to create a new race of beings called, The Nushans.