Every day they came to the recruiting office, eager-eyed men anxious to enlist for what they thought was a worthwhile cause. They gave their names and next of kin, then walked into a back room, where the enigmatic Dr. Lell waited for them. And that was where the nightmare began: For Lell was a time-traveller from an unimaginably hideous future where a war between the sane Planetarians and the insane Glorious was devastating Earth. The Glorious were weakening, losing thousands of men every minute -- and so they had dispatched emissaries like Lell to the past, to lure unsuspecting adventure-seekers into the ranks of their decimated slave-armies: It was a one-way ticket to death in a violent future...