"Taren Capel? The mad god of the robots. He was famous, briefly, but then, weren't we all?" Someone is spinning a web. Links are forming between one man's need for violence and another's desire for power; a desert ore processing station and a long dead enemy of the state. Someone, maybe everyone, is being manipulated. Carnell is the obvious culprit, but who is the psychostrategist working for, and what could their motive possibly be?