"Rome has not lived on through power but through people and immortal ideas that have brought humanity to the stars... why have we forgotten that?" -An Oral History of Bitter and Dead Men in the Post-Colonial Age of Interstellar Conflicts.

Fighting for the Republic of Rome in an Alt-History world where their empire survives and has become the preeminent interstellar power in the galaxy. Eversor and his comrade Ajax are part of a Roman special forces unit sent on a catastrophic mission to capture a mysterious military research factory. Along the way, they gather some unlikely allies to fight and discover together why so much blood is being shed over one mission.