For everything there is a beginning, so holds true for heroes. The age-old Dominion alliance is under threat of being split in two and, to agitate the situation even more, an old foe is awakened from his penal slumber of hyper-genetic freeze and in the hands of the brigand raiders. Because of his former military knowledge, now in the hands of the rebels, alarms the stability and a veteran marshal is ordered to seek out and diffuse the chain of events.