Only legends spoke of the Original World, long lost in the depths of the Void. Confined to their isolated colonies, humans were equally oblivious of the technology that powered the initial expansion wave, until an alchemical breakthrough made travel between their scattered worlds possible once again. The new interstellar routes became a conduit for trade and exchange of ideas, but also for human greed and lust for power: when rich nefa deposits are discovered on the backwater world of Zagrata, the planet descends into a bloody civil war. Caught in the middle of the senseless violence is Messer Pompilio Cesare Faja der Dagen Tour, an Adigen from the house of the Lingan Dars, a Commander of the Astrological Fleet, and a bambadao.