Over the millennia, humanity has spread to the Cluster, a group of stars located in a distant arm of our galaxy. But the humans and other intelligent races who settled here are threatened by a highly effective system of mind control, imposing a uniform society and crushing all dissent: Supremacy. One after another, by subtle ruse or brutal force, the independent worlds of the Cluster are being absorbed into its vision of reality.
Now only a single ancient warship and its mercenary crew, commanded by a legendary captain, stand in the way of complete conquest. But Captain Alcaino, a renegade escapee from a Supremacist prison, knows how the enemy operates. And he has a plan…