Eight thousand years after Earth was turned to glass, humanity's descendants have largely become a post-scarcity society built on consent and the enjoyment of life. The discovery of another ancient species beyond the Great Gulf sends the Human Alliance into a war with an empire a hundred million years old, an empire that always wins and believes it will win forever. With allies and enemies drawn from many species, the Orion Arm of the galaxy will be ravaged by a war unlike anything seen before. Broken, tortured, wounded, and damaged, humans of the human bloodline throw themselves recklessly into a struggle against the universe itself.
The universe hates you. It will take everything you love, and laugh as it does.
