Life had been going swimmingly for humble technician AenMorris; a job he loved, a lifestyle he adored, and not an inkling in the world that he would ever step off of the beaten path.
But when a chance encounter wedges itself into his ordinary routine, Aen finds his life flipped upside down. One minute, he's trying to fix some faulty company equipment, and the next, he's in a rebel ship, watching as his beloved company gets besieged by the galactic government!
With his peaceful life on Veridia going up in flames, Aen pleads for the rebels to grant him his freedom—a request that is shot down. It's not long, however, before Aen realizes why: for a reason that entirely eludes him, the empire has labeled him a galactic criminal!
His freedom no longer his, Aen scours the edges of the galaxy with his newfound allies, digging up the dark truths the government has kept buried away—and, for the first time in his thirty-four years of life, a fact that had never so much as crossed his mind comes to light:
The empire is not a friend, but a foe.