Deep in the bowls of Nova Castillia Hive on Fenksworld, in the Calixius Sector, a new force is rising. But the Imperium is calcified and hateful to anything that upsets the status quo. Anything except conquerors willing to bend to Terra. What care they how the Tithe is gathered, as long as it is paid? The Inquisition is ever watchful, but for the right price... *** The story of Pyrrha, Sanctuary, and the people who made it and guard it in a galaxy that knows only war.