The Solar Alliance has grown steadily through conquest for over two centuries, dominating the homeworld of Tera, gradually returning the far flung colonies of humanity back under the control of a single unified interstellar civilisation. Only the Solar Alliance has the secrets of the Twister Engine that allows starships to travel from star to star within days or weeks instead of decades. The Solar Alliance has the superior technology, the military might, and their leaders have the ruthless ambition to eventually rule all of humankind. The Solar Alliance has never lost a war, never been defeated in open battle, never failed to suppress a revolt. The plans of the Solar Alliance leaders appear unstoppable ....

..... until one small band of young men and women unexpectedly discover not only a means to successfully rebel against the Solar Alliance, but also find themselves on the path to darker, unwelcome, and terrifying truths.