The galaxy is ruled by a ruthless species called the Ipis while Humanity clings to survival on the fringe of that empire. Dante Carloman, cobbles together an alliance of polyglot species and wins a decisive victory over the galaxy's dominant power. Leveraging that success, he persuades, the Ipis empress, Fravashi to fashion a bizarre treaty allowing the human planets, along with their allied species to become a semi-autonomous sector of the Ipis empire. This does not sit well with the Ipis nobil...