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AN OLD EMPIRE AWAKENS FROM A DARK AGE. BUT WILL THE GODS...WILL THE FATES...WILL THE CIVILIZED WORLDS...THE OLD NOBLE HOUSES...WILL THEY PERMIT AN EMPIRE TO BE REBORN...

In this tale, the second of The Empire Chronicles, we find Our Beautiful Joanna, ready to take her rightful place in History, as Empress. Her Beloveds, General Udria Thorpe, Captain-General Grey, and her closest Advisor, Alethea, prepare themselves for the next leg of Our Journey out into The Galaxy. Will the old Core Worlds receive them? Are the old "Civilized" Noble Houses willing to accept the "Rustics" of the faraway Guild? We cannot know, Dear Friend, until the path before us is trodden. If Empire’s Sword opened the first page of our saga, then this page carries us e’er onward. As we travel upon our journey together, Dear Friend, know you this one and simple truth...that I was there...