The Master Builder of the Forerunner Ecumene, alive. Mind and Geas kept deep within the Domain by a Precursor. As such, humanity has gone beyond their own stars, to Path Kethona, the Star Wars galaxy. He wrestles with his past, his horrible crimes attempting to find peace, reconciliation. Faber-of-Will-and-Might destroyed the galaxy, and now will have to save them both.

Jorge 052, Noble Five, detonates the Slipspace bomb manually as the last resort. Now this black hole ripped a hole between galaxies, sending the wreckage of the Supercarrier through to the other side... to the peaceful Republic planet of Naboo. With an intergalactic war seeming inevitable, he must adapt to a different and more secretive UNSC, and enemies that are not his own.