"We are Robots. We are not shells for fleshlings to appropriate!" The robots are coming home to roost and the Imperium is faced with another revolution. As if that wasn't bad enough, a new enemy emerges, putting the Empire between a rock and a hard place! Things look bleak, but old friends and a few new ones may save the day, if only they can discover the secret of an ancient artifact. In the meantime, the Queen of the Klixians has decided the rest of us must go... All that is not Mother must die!