The supporters of Auguste Saturnine, exiled consul, are silenced and oppressed, driven underground and disenfranchised. Still they cling to hope that one day the wrong will be righted, that the government of the Dominion of Planets will face its reckoning.

Yet a dark wind is blowing, and an evil that the humans of Old Terra escaped ten thousand years ago is now spoken of at a whisper. His name? Unknown. His role? The nemesis.