The galaxy is cold. And heartless. Fresh from rescuing the daughter of a powerful aristocrat, Commander Joe Pikeman sets his sights on the next mission: saving humanity from enslavement. Rodney Fairfax will stop at nothing to achieve his goal of galactic domination. From sparking a bot rebellion, to engineering godlike biological constructs to crush his enemies, he has set an entire sector ablaze. For trying to stop Fairfax, Joe has been cast as an outlaw, pursued by the same soldiers he once called brothers. No one else recognizes the threat Fairfax poses to every living being in the galaxy. If Joe can't find a way to stop him now, it will be too late.