Seeking to remake the world Niarudi--the matriarch of the DRF & the mastermind behind the N5SV drone epidemic--has unleashed the Reverse Morphic Polymer. But unplanned contact during the transformation reduces the planet to ruin. In its place a giant cordlike world appears complete with its own population & ecosystem. Enveloped by the change Zoichi Nishu & the others set out into this bizarre new world to thwart Niarudis plans. The strange inhabitants of the cord" bring stranger revelations still & the struggle to control the future of humanity turns toward its final conflict!"