The distress signal from the stranded Arkonid ship on the Moon attracts foreign intelligences into the Solar System. Humanity, just saved from atomic self-destruction by Perry Rhodan, faces the dangerous Individual Shapers. Perry Rhodan discovers an ancient base on the planet Venus, which he can bring under the control of the Third Power he founded. There, he trains parapsychologically gifted individuals, positive mutants with unusual abilities. However, as soon as the threat of the Individual Shapers is repelled by the mutants, new enemies emerge in the Vega system, only 27 light-years from Earth, whose original target was the Earth. Together with his friends from the Mutant Corps, Perry Rhodan dares to make the jump to the distant Vega system aboard the Arkonid shuttle GOOD HOPE, where the Arkonid Crest suspects the world of immortality. Upon arrival, Perry Rhodan encounters a determined opponent, the Topsiders. This book describes how he confronts them with the help of the Mutant Corps and also saves the Ferron people from destruction.