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In the vast expanse of a united universe, the Hargylle Empire stands as an omnipotent force, holding absolute dominion over countless galaxies and planets. Within the stars, a tale of power, ambition, and tangled destinies.

Somewhere the million-cities of Valens, Pherani, the resolute granddaughter of the emperor's eldest son who is opposed by her elder cousin, Ranifir, the ambitious offspring of the emperor's youngest daughter, who treacherous desires to seize the throne.

Meanwhile, the enigmatic young Vedar Rivers, a seer able to see the future within storms, witnesses his family's steady ascent to dominance on a distant planet. As their influence grows beyond their ruling, and advances to the stars, he foresees a hundred billion deaths in his honor.

In another corner of the universe, on the planet Ianides, House Yarr holds control over the drug Sweetwater and the people of their planet who they harvest it from. Their reign, however, faces formidable challenges that may prove to be their ultimate undoing when their subjects rise up.

And on Samar Minor, Lord Daniel Thogar announces himself as the Sacred Emperor of his solar system, forcing his wife, Lady Hadassah, to make a decision between her love and her loyalty to the Imperium.

From them, to the Norhiego, gifted biological engineers who have transmogrified their minds to become near-fully artificial, to the Thornner company and it's workers, "Sweetwater" follows the collapse of an Empire, and it's hundreds of causes.

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Volume 1