Ashes of Freedom

THE REGIME -- Once human, the Corvans have abandoned all vestiges of humanity, forging a cybernetic order where caste dictates free will, and free will means power. Their Awareness, a techno-religion of linked minds, rejects any authority not their own. They cannot abide a galaxy of a thousand races, and ten-thousand creeds. So all will burn.

THE RESISTANCE -- Lurinari was just one world caught up in the Corvan's interstellar blitz. But while the cyber-fascists conquered much of it quickly, hardened pockets continued to hold out. And what should have been a quick Corvan victory has dragged on for years of grinding, guerilla war.

THE FIGHT -- Elsewhere in the galaxy, the tides of war have shifted. Resurgent free worlds have formed a Coalition to stomp out the Corvan scourge. And now they've set their sights on Lurinari. To prepare the ground, they've sent one man -- a specialist in lost causes and hopeless odds -- to stoke the embers of resistance into an inferno of rebellion.

But after such a fire, will anything remain save ashes?