The Centauri Trilogy, part 1. The bombing of the Interstellar Alliance forces threw Centauri Prime back into the Stone Age; The Centauri civilization is slowly and painfully recovering from the terrible wounds inflicted on it under the leadership of Emperor Londo Mollari. However, Londo himself becomes a pawn in the hands of a powerful race - the Drakh, who implanted a Guardian in him. The terrifying plans of these creatures turned Centauri Prime into a source of gathering forces to strike at their main rival, the Interstellar Alliance. Only the outwardly weak and narrow-minded Vir Kotto, a former assistant to the emperor when he was ambassador to Babylon 5, can resist these plans.