Aboard the greatest research vessel ever produced, in the year 2226, a group of United Systems documenters are invited to review not only its quality of life but the projects conducted therein. Felina Sabartinelli, one of the ten documenters, finds herself enthralled by such an invitation and journey among the stars, just beyond the Earth's Solar System. But she soon realizes some things are best left untouched, and that savagery knows no bounds where science prevails.