Captain Kel Cheris is possessed with a long-dead traitor general. Jointly they must encounter the rivalries of the hexarchate and a possibly devastating invasion. When the hexarchate’s gifted youthful captain Kel Cheris summoned the ghost from the long-dead General Shuos Jedao to help her put down a rebellion, she didn’t reckon on his breaking free from generations of imprisonment – and having her. Even worse, the foe Hafn are invading, and Jedao gets control General Kel Khiruev’s fleet, which was tasked with preventing them. Only 1 of Khiruev’s subordinates, Lieutenant Colonel Kel Brezan, appears to be able to withstand the influence of the outstanding but psychotic Jedao. Jedao statements to be thinking about defending the hexarchate, but can Khiruev or Brezan trust him? For example, will the hexarchate’s experts wipe out the entire fleet to destroy the rogue general?