HOPE BEFORE FEAR. Scheming scientist and warmonger Sycorax has most of the Known Systems entagled in her machinations, endagering peace and properity across the universe. Three beings most closely bound by her plots strive to break free. Sycorax created Caliban as a prototype for a genetically manufactured soldier. He exists as a failed experiment trying to find his place on an unforgiving world. Member Five is an alien intelligence trapped...