The Imperial Remnant are a group of fanatics who continue to hold to the ideals of the Empire that once spanned hundreds of star systems. Now, however, their numbers are few and their operations have become far smaller and more secretive. The crew of the New Rebublic vessel Charybdis spend their days hunting out these small cells and eliminating them. A mission to a small listening post reveals that the enemy is far more organized that originally thought, and that they are planning something far more sinister . . .