The digital intelligence Odyssey returns to his homeworld to find all the biological lifeforms gone with a social structure designed to keep a few digital beings in power with most of the world under their control. They view his arrival as a threat and attack him. Even though he is invulnerable to their attack, one of them risks her life to protect him. When they turn their attack on her, he protects her, but she cleverly steals some of his technology until her ambition makes her a danger to him and a battle of epic proportions follows.