Panic grips the world, as a nuclear showdown in the Middle East threatens to engulf the world in an atomic fireball. Suddenly, millions of people vanish off the face of the planet and not even the world's best scientists can explain why, leaving many to speculate that the disappearances were the result of some new secret weapon fired in the growing tensions in the Middle East standoff. Soon however, the leaders of the world, via a special worldwide television broadcast, introduce the citizens of all nations to a powerful race of beings known as the Balazons. Shocking words of revelation from Khur-ak, the alien leader, threaten to destabilize the world, as the aliens claim to have been invisibly influencing human development for millions of years and are the "gods" that humans have always worshipped. They've been watching us for millennia . . . now it's our turn to see them.