While other energy companies had been paying inordinate amounts of money to transport coal, gas and crude oil from Tandoori to Earth, RAPTOR ENERGY raked in billions by tapping an incredibly potent energy source: Nymph Pearls, extracted from the hearts of certain large burrowing insects.

For almost ten years these "space pearls" as they are called on Earth have been used to power cities. They retain all the properties of highly enriched uranium without the negative effects of radiation.

....who took the job for adventure, riches and a chance to see another planet.  Abe was doing the only thing he could to provide for his family. Earth was a wreck and the money he made from this job was the only way he could keep his daughter from a future of slaving away in the garbage mines.

....the insects began to change from benign bugs into ravenous monsters.  As RAPTOR ENERGY Headquarters is crippled by the attacks from a renegade group of rebels with a seething agenda of revenge, Abe finds himself abandoned in the wilderness surrounded by danger on all sides. As he begins to unravel the secrets of Tandoori, a plague of giant brain sucking insects swarm the land. With the Corporation on it's last leg and the United States Government out of money for a rescue mission, Abe must rely on only his wits, a cache of antiquated military gear and the drive to reunite with his daughter in order to survive.