Sigurd meets the mysterious insectoid human Takaarrath. He too carries a secret, but he himself knows nothing about it; he is the last descendant of the Neensziss people. Aliens who once built the ''City of a Thousand Stars'' on Venus and who simply disappeared around 200 years ago after the Great War. Together they set off in search of the legendary AREA 51, where the path to the "New Worlds" is said to be located.