A Super Intelligence drifted through the lonely void of space, haunted by the memories of those she left behind, a galactic society swallowed by those black things that swarmed through the dark of forgotten empires. Eaters of worlds. Devourers of suns. Left hopeless and afraid for the future of a new people light-years beyond, AVA waited for a hero to find her. In an Empire on the brink of war, the hope of all free peoples now rests on a liar, a fighter and a survivor. Three tales from three ships in the finest fleet the Terrace Empire has ever known. The Dreadnought Armada swarms, emblazoned by a decade-long feud, but can military might alone unite the galaxy in time for the coming storm?