The Empire has preserved peace and order throughout human-inhabited space, but it has grown weak with the passing of the centuries, and now the self-styled New Humans are rising in open rebellion, striving to seize control and impose their fanatical grand design on all humans everywhere. And new graduates of the Imperial Deep Space Fleet Academy, Basil, Sonja, and Torval will play a crucial role as the rising storm of war engulfs the galaxy. .