(3056) Six years have passed since the clan invasion, and now the prince of the Federated Commonwealth, Victor Steiner-Davion, faces a bloody rebellion within the country. The angry inhabitants of a war-torn star empire rebel against their overlord just as the clan's stormtroopers launch a new attack on the fragments of the once mighty hereditary state. Without a united kingdom, Prince Victor has no hope of standing against the clan warriors and their fighting robots. He does not have enough strength to protect his kingdom from pretenders to power - other heads of the Great Houses of the Inner Sphere, who have always feared and envied his star empire. Victor Davion must fight for the survival of his people at all costs, both against old sworn enemies and against the rise of a deadly clan. If he loses. The Federated Commonwealth will fall, and darkness may fall over the Inner Sphere.