Thespace transport vessel Hunter-Gratzner carrying 40 people on-boardcrashes on a desert planet when the ship is struck in a meteor storm.There are only 10 survivors, among them are pilot Carolyn Fry (Who hasassumed command after the ship s captain is killed), bounty hunterWilliam J. Johns, religious man Abu Al-Walid, Antiques dealer Paris P.Ogilvie, runaway teenager Jack, settlers John Zeke Ezekiel and hislover Sharon Shazza Montgomery and Richard B. Riddick, a dangerousescaped convict. Marooned, the 10 survivors finds the barren and hotdesert-scape has sunlight from three suns. Not only they find food andwater, and worry about Riddick, the survivors finds themselves beinghunted by the planet s flesh eating alien inhabits, when the planet isengulfed in darkness, which happens every 22 years, as they come out onto the surface to hunt and eat all signs of life...