25th Century warfare has no limits. It spans planets solar systems, and entire galaxies. One man stands between humanity and ruin: Corso. Always the man in the shadows, nudging history in the right direction, Corso must once again gather five heroes to stand as humanity's defenders against its true enemies. Those heroes are - - a seasoned and bitter war veteran, a genius with a cybernetic body, a telepathic refugee princess from the Middle Kingdom, a Japanese juvenile delinquent who reflexively causes the laws of physics to break down around him, and mysterious entity known simply as Eve, as they seek to defend humanity, unseen, unknown, but always vigilant They are The Five