The two thousand year old Chayan Empire is dying. It is being torn asunder by rebellion, rotted from the inside by corruption. The desperate solution: Raise Lord Sangrama from the dead. Let him destroy the rebellions like he did the Chankallans a thousand years before, reviving the tottering Empire. It was a last-ditch, hare-brained scheme. Then came the complications: the rebels heard of the plan and raided Haben in force to kill Sangrama and the project. Then came the further complications: The raid failed in its objective. He got away. Complicating matters even further, they had cloned the wrong corpse. The man they had resurrected wasn't Sangrama.