In the far reaches of the future, the universe in its grand totality submits to the will of the Seventh-Venerated Emperor Volsif XCVII's Great Domain. It is a time of abundant prosperity and of miserable deprivation; of gentle peace and of devastating war. And it is within the backwater fiefdom of Callisto that a man born with everything and a woman born with nothing - both crippled by circumstance beyond their control - will try to carve the shapes of their own existences onto the uncaring world around them as, all the while, the looming hand of the all-knowing Emperor closes its jealous grip tighter and tighter over the future of the known universe. It is a fool's gambit, they know. But still they must try.