The Cibar planet has been facing an infestation unlike any other. After chewing through all of their planet's resources, A plague of robotic insect-like aliens has been invading cities and leaving destruction in its wake, fixed on eating the crystals that power all of the planet's technology. Travel and trade have slowed to a crawl, even after years of desperate pest control. Out in the desert, a small boom town built on an energy crystal mine is getting hit harder than most, forced to adapt to constant threat and harder and harder mining conditions. For the first time in a while, someone new comes into town, and is quickly roped into helping rid the town of it's swarm of aliens. However, somewhere along their journey, this mysterious traveler has picked up a little interplanetary sightseer of her own...