Dzugi sto let nazad dumali, chto zavoyuyut Imperiyu, sdelayut lyudey rabami, i budut spokoyno zhit" i razmnozhat"sya. No oni zhestoko proschitalis". Chelovecheskaya rasa ne sposobna zhit" v rabstve. Takimi nas sdelali bogi-sozdateli. I togda, ne sumev pokorit", dzugi reshayut, chto luchshe unichtozhit" rasu lyudey pod koren", chtoby zatem samim poselit"sya na nashikh planetakh. I vot idyet grazhdanskaya voyna, gde pogibayut osnovnye sily zashchitnikov Imperii – gosudarstvennyy flot. A vot, pozhaluysta, i vtorzhenie grizov, staratel"no vypolnyayushchikh sleduyushchuyu chast" khitroumnogo plana dzugov. Uorrtsy unichtozhayut ostavshiesya sily lyudey i bezzhalostno istreblyayut naselenie planet. Kaertan chuzhimi rukami gotovit sebe territoriyu dlya zaseleniya.