Artificial intelligence has been developed to a point where individual intelligence could be uploaded into a computer, achieving sort of hybrid immortality. Astronaut Christian Brannock welcomes this technology, technology that will allow him to achieve his desire and explore the celebrities.

A billion years later, Brannock is dispatched to Globe to be sure of some strange anomalies. While there, he fits Laurinda Ashcroft, another hybrid upload. Brannock and Ashcroft get together and investigate Gaia, the supermind dominating the planet, and learn the reality of her terrifying key plans for Globe.