The Varkh Ascendancy's "Order" is a lie. The "heretical plague" they hunt is empathy.
For 50,000 years, the Varkh has maintained its grip by purging the galaxy's past and engineering its future. But the truth, buried on dead worlds and in the genes of "Virex" super-soldiers, is waking up.
This epic unfolds through the eyes of 35 interconnected lives:
A Varkh Purity Officer who discovers his own child is a "heretic." A gladiator who uncovers the monstrous origin of his power. A Sarthari navigator who rediscovers the "lost magic" of the Strand. A rebel leader who must unite a fractured alliance of idealists, assassins, and vengeful warriors.
From the bureaucratic nightmares of the capital to the founding of a new galactic Pact, this is a saga of a galaxy's fight to reclaim its own soul.