Sinjun Sovos knows his intervals are numbered, unless a replacement anti-rejection serum can be found. As his health continues to deteriorate, his friends on the Recon Two race to secure a new source of the compound on Planet Dragen. After one look down the spiraling staircase under the cellar in the Hedgol Municipal Library on Plantia Two, Amelia Masteli and Rorell Bolo agree that they will never venture into the crumbling catacombs below. Fate has other plans for them, and soon they are fleeing for their lives into the dark unknown. For cycles, an underground resistance group inside the Toridian Empire has waited and prepared to take down the Ministry and those calling themselves the Elites. The defection of Sovos the Butcher and subsequent victories achieved by the Under Planet Alliance have made it clear that it is now time to initiate their plan, but the Ministry won't go down without a fight.