As clandestine Altarin’Dakor forces move unseen within their space, the New Imperium must mount a defense against the increasing, inexorable assault by the Warlord Nimrod’s forces. Faced with sabotage and assassination attempts, the NI must find the strength to persevere. Maarek Stele’s Inferno Squadron has a close encounter with the AD forces at Talas, while the NI’s First Fleet desperately tries to evacuate the Moro System, before an unstoppable Altarin’Dakor strike force arrives to annihilate everything…