The immortals had ruled for far too long. Those who had served them and lived on other worlds were not complaining, but the free mortals claimed they had a star empire of their own, and no desire to become someone else's pets or servants. Despite all this, only minor skirmishes had occured, quickly ended by the Queen's Squadron, pilots of the only faster-than-light ships in existence, and guardians of all the worlds that belonged to the immortals. But now the free mortals had come up with their perfect strategy for destroying the "gods". And all that stood between the immortals and doom was one of their own - the last surviving truthspeaker - ready to throw away her immortality, and the men and women of the Queen's Squadron, ready to challenge the very heart of a sun in the defense of their people...