Cyborg soldier Jacob Sicarius awakens early from stasis to find the crew of his multi-generational colony ship entrenched in civil war. Can he win the war against the mutineers and the malfunctioning AI implant fighting for control over his brain?
The animals once seen as allies are revealed as adversaries. Fragmented minds from beyond the horizon yearn for the control they lost. The story that began with swords and sorcery ends with a snake charging a plasma cannon.