Article One of the Constitution of the Human Empire states: “All races are equal.” This phrase can be read above every bench intended for “humans only” and above every building into which “humans only” can enter. The Human Empire has won four crushing wars. She defeated giant barrs, with three-meter wings and beaks oozing poison. She saved the oppressed Kriin - and the Kriin have since become slaves of humanity. And then the Human Empire defeated the terrible Harites, whose biology and mathematics were alien to all the races of the Galaxy, monsters who did not have their own appearance and there was no “yours” and “mine.” And now, seventeen years after the great victory, a man born on planet of the Harites, gets the opportunity to take revenge on the victors...