It is the year 2167 and Simon Shadow leaves an overpopulated Earth on a personal quest for freedom; his target is Reetar, a distant planet recently colonized. What he finds upon arrival is a city bristling with rival religions. Within a matter of days, Simon offends the Unholy Mass, the colony's most sadistic and powerful religion. His life threatened, he realizes the only way to save himself is to become a rival faith--Shimmerism--while on the...