About twenty-three cycles ago the most powerful worlds under the control of the empire got together in secret to figure out how to beat the top dog; the Cassads. Most people will tell you that was the beginning of their fall but really…it was the Blade. The Blade did to the Cassads what it did to most; cut them up and bled them numb. The New Regime got bolder after that. The known began falling faster and the Cassads couldn’t feel the reigns slipping through their cold fingers… couldn’t hear the scores of worlds crying for liberation for the buzzing in their ears. Now the Known is in chaos and the Cassads last worlds are under siege.