PLOIDs are humanity evolved — beings who have merged their DNA with technology into something beyond human. When an alien civilization from another galaxy invades Earth with the intent of absorbing absolute power and consuming everything it touches, a faction of PLOIDs decides to act. Alpha and Omega must travel backward through time to collect sacred stones from ancient eras — feudal Japan, the ice age, the medieval period, and others — each stone adding power to their resistance. The complication: the aliens got there first, and the stones are already contested. Time itself is destabilizing, and only the player, connecting to the PLOID network, can prevent the collapse.