Human life in the forty-first millennium is a war with neither end nor edge in sight. You always have to fight with everyone - alien races, the forces of Chaos, interstellar predators. Fights with representatives of their own species - mutants, heretics, traitors - are not uncommon. The crew of the cruiser "Macharius" has been in more than one trouble, fought against all sorts of enemies with which the Galaxy is teeming, but it is unlikely that Captain Leoten Semper could imagine a situation where he would have to join forces with recent opponents - the Eldar - in a fight that would not be ignored gods. But even the gods do not know what the intricacies of the Crossroads of Fates conceal.