Toppling a galactic empire was the easy part. Now comes the fallout.
The crew of the Stray Dog dealt the blow—a single, surgical strike that silenced the tyrannical Omni-Gen corporation and unleashed a firestorm of truth upon a thousand worlds. But the truth didn't liberate the galaxy; it set it on fire. As the unredacted horrors of bioweapon programs, engineered famines, and the child-harvesting atrocity known as Project Nightingale spread, the galaxy fractures. Worlds erupt in righteous vengeance, paranoid purges, and brutal civil wars.
In the chaos, the dregs of Omni-Gen form a new cartel, armed with the corporation's darkest creations—from rabid super-soldiers to cancerous demigods—and they have one target: the rebels who ruined them.
Facing a galaxy tearing itself apart, the crew must become something more than soldiers. Haunted by his choices, Archimboldi grapples with the ancient wisdom of a fallen historian. Lispector and Cormac find their brand of warfare ill-suited for a battle of ideas. And Remedios-Valdrada, the temporal god known as the Cerberus, faces the ultimate temptation: to save the galaxy by imposing a perfect, logical peace—and become the very thing they fought to destroy.