Deneb IV, 2400 CE. The shift in power from the Sol System to Deneb System, and the conflicts of the era seem inevitable from our long view back. For someone living in the twenty-fifth Century, however, the violence and sudden reversals and advances among the worlds must have most certainly seemed a jarring billiards game of worlds. It was an obscure Medical Research facility on one of a hundred bustling boom-worlds that would come to define the age. A dashing young scientist, Lourdes Cassandra appears on the Galactic stage as if at a weightless moment of an apogee... -Princess Clairissa Maggio, Caldris "Deneb IV, Empire of Light and Darkness." Over Centuries the Transhumans intervene seeking to preserve Humanity against its own folly, with sometimes wonderful and sometimes disastrous effect. In time, however, there is more than Humanity to deal with as ancient aliens and beings from the multiverse begin to menace Humankind.