Mordiar Morduk was at the pinnacle of his career. One of the youngest to ever achieve the rank of Maxim Quirinus, he had won ever medal available, some more than once. Then one day he was branded a war criminal and forced into exile to avoid being executed. For twenty years he finds peace and solitude on a planet trying to get through its industrial age, his only companion a combat-mech named Bob. Then he meets Cheyenne and for the first time in his life he falls in love and starts to realized that he can raise a family here and be safe. When the Rebellion suddenly shows up and wants him to join, he flatly refuses. What happens next will change his life forever and plunge the multi-verse into a bloody and merciless civil war. This is book one of the Mordiar Opus Trilogy and begins Mordiar's quest for absolution and redemption in a multi-verse that requires the ultimate sacrifice for those who are un-worthy.