Outline
It is not only on our sphere that horrible despots prevail attracting with them innocents that they can control. And if patrols of Birds-Of-Madness, with their poisonous bite, were not used on Earth, the means of forcing populations to endure the worst oppressions did not miss much else on the territory of the Master.
Grabbed by an unknown force towards a cemetery of spacecraft, Valérian and Laureline soon find themselves alongside the other unfortunates assigned to the production of the klaar, intended to appease the enormous appetite of the dictator reigning in all good conscience on the asteroid which it uses as its great personal kitchen.
An album placed under the sign of the revolt against the greed of the powerful ones.
(translated from the back cover blurb to the French edition)
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