In the wake of the fall of Netherea the Intergalactic Alliance has worked on stabilizing the Xoron home world's molten core. During the past four years they have only managed to marginally improve the planet's dire conditions. Grummus and Räz are working together with other Alliance specialist to see to it that the planet becomes stable, until one day the Shaedon return and take back the planet in the blink of an eye utilizing androids named “Polydrones”, which were designed by Philbin, the Master Tinkerer.