Ainah and Dirinalla have fallen. Once the vibrant Free City exemplars of the Ithar Principalities, they-like countless nations before them-became prey to the Dominion Federate and its lightning-strike shock troops, the Hunt, in the Dominie's eternal quest to bring its sterile, calcified "order" to the entirety of Nemesis. But there are rebels amongst the cities' survivors, those not yet taken to be programmed and assimilated into the Federate. They...