For twenty-three years the alien bugs have been depositing human POWs on this earth-like world. These prisoners were the cream of the human military, but time and isolation have taken their toll, and most have given up hope of escape and are busy making lives as farmers on this hospitable planet. Some still struggle on, laying plans and making preparations.

When the captured crew of the flagship Victorious are deposited upon the planet, all that is set to change. Now they are going to escape, in three years and counting. The plan will involve almost everybody on the planet, massive construction, disruption and destruction all planned and coordinated for the one chance they'll get.