Succession

The undead Emperor, having ruled for over one thousand years supported by the Risen, an elite group he has granted eternal life, finds his empire of eighty worlds threatened when the Rix, machine-augmented humans who seek to make all minds one through Artificial Intelligence, kidnap the tyrannical Emperor's sister, the eternal Child Empress.

Captain Laurent Zai of the Imperial frigate Lynx fights what seems to be an unwinnable battle to stop a vastly superior Rix ship from reaching the planet Legis.

Captain Laurent Zai of the Imperial Frigate "Lynx" faces the nearly impossible task of stopping the next wave of the Rix invasion with just his ship, while his lover Senator Nara Oxham is in danger of learning a secret the Emperor will kill to keep.

Zai and pacifist senator Nara Oxham challenge the Rix, machine-augmented people who worship planet-sized beings with artificial intelligence and seek to supplant the power of the undead Emperor and his sister, the Child Empress, who have ruled for sixteen hundred years.