
He immediately began to experience hallucinations of the original Marker, unbroken, as well as hearing whispers and seeing his daughter, Vivian. On Aegis VII, Kuttner found a fragment of the Marker and picked it up. Each fragment was worth two million credits per kilo an offer that the team could not pass up. Moreover, the team was to pick up any surviving fragments left from Marker 3A which had been destroyed by Clarke.


The team's mission was to set up several gravity stabilizers to stabilize the planet at specific locations and hold it together.

The planet had been damaged because of the actions of an engineer named Isaac Clarke and had become highly unstable.
