Energy-hungry industrialists of a long extinct petroculture designed Ji-Gumo's forebears to harvest hydrocarbons to fuel their failing engines of commerce. Then... they unleashed them across the parallel universes.

But the spiders evolved, severed connection. They developed an insatiable taste for organic matter. Like the wildcatters of old, Ji-Gumo is ever in search of the next great gusher of food and fuel.

In Aya's and Takeo's Land of the Rising Sun, Ji-Gumo and his swarm of robotic spiders find boundless reserves of succulent living flesh.