[The Destruction of Moscow Is Not a Solution]

The universe has become incomprehensible. Shaken up by unpredictable impulses of change, cause and effect and good and evil have become inextricably intertwined. The hermenauts are unsettled and anxious– but they have a plan. Someone has to stop the impulses where they originate: in Moscow.

Ma', the staunch navigator, is sent to stop whatever (or whoever) is causing the troublesome changes. Kommander Kobayashi accompanies Ma' on his journey. The mission is controlled from afar by the hermenauts on La Fenice.

The transfer to Moscow succeeds. But the city repeatedly finds itself battered by violent waves of change that radically transform its entire coordinate system – topographical, cultural and personal. In this unfamiliar landscape, orientation is impossible, and suddenly the purpose of the mission itself no longer seems clear. What is Ma' trying to find? Is a person behind all this? Or some kind of central switch? What's more, the remote control technology proves unreliable and the contact with La Fenice is constantly interrupted. And Kobayashi? He gets involved with the shady Moscow strongman Sergei Pavlovitch and gets into his SUV...

Laika, a shape-shifting dog, woman and motor centaur, has followed Ma' and takes over the reins from the navigator gone astray… Gradually Ma' throws all his firm intentions to the wind. Finally he submits to the next wave along with Laika and is overcome by a rush of oneness and transformation.

Meanwhile Kobayashi accompanies Sergei Pavlovitch to the latter's Club Mausoleum, where Pavlovitch is working on a system of controls with which he hopes to bring the unstable Moscow under his command. The hermenauts on La Fenice are thrilled. After managing to locate the straying Ma', they appeal to his sense of duty and drive him and Laika into the arms of Sergei Pavlovitch. Pavlovitch uses Laika to demonstrate how all change can ultimately be repressed. Unable to prevent this cruel operation, Ma' is driven to despair by feelings of guilt and remorse. He undergoes an inner mutation into a THING that stomps through Moscow crushing and killing everything in his path.

The hermenauts call their broken navigator back home to La Fenice.



La Fenice falls through endless space. Falling is both scandal and the normal state of affairs. – Suddenly something is different. La Fenice falls through Warsaw. The hermenauts look at each other. Has something happened? Unnoticed by anybody, the twins scurry across the scene.

The Twins are a kind of virus. They infest a system and make themselves indispensable. Their agenda is control through manipulation; their most important instrument is the drug SCREAM.

SCREAM is an acoustic drug that is instilled into the unsuspecting hermenauts. SCREAM is liberating. It releases desires – both long held and previously unimagined – and enables people to make them come true instantly, no matter what the cost.

Go's secret desire is power over others. Thus the twins invent an assignment for her as an undercover drug agent, ordering her to target Tii!. Her inhibitions loosened due to the effects of SCREAM, Go manages to bewitch Tii! with her sexual charms. In a moment of utter bliss, Go suddenly has a vision – namely that she, Go, can give everyone satisfaction, better than anyone in the world. Go becomes addicted. Tii! on the other hand, previously ever the functioning machine, emancipates herself thanks to SCREAM and becomes an ideological agitator. She devises a new economic system that will make everyone happy, which she plans to implement, here and now, on La Fenice. After the twins' visit, Ma’ comes to a decision: He no longer wants to bear responsibility and abandons his command post on the ship's bridge for good. It seems Kommander Kobayashi is the only one who is immune to the lure of SCREAM. He immerses himself in the study of the melody and verses of a Warsaw song.

Scrabble, however, the bashful puzzle-beast, implements a plan it has been nurturing for a long time: ending this shameful, forever stumbling existence. Just turn everything embarrassing off (in other words, everything). Things, facilities, feelings, people. On/Off! One after another.

The different plans and visions are grand and collide with each other. Meanwhile the twins wield their influence over La Fenice – until the unleashed puzzle-beast comes up with the idea to switch off the twins, as well. All effects produced by the twins and SCREAM cease immediately.

The mood is despondent. Now they must begin to pick up the pieces. Only Kobayashi is still singing. Things are almost back to normal. But Scrabble no longer needs a drug to know what it wants and promptly switches off the entire universe. On/Off! And …?