Captain Lees Tarillion of the Imperial guardship Lusus is faced with a deadly challenge: find a fugitive AI and its accomplices, or lose his command--and possibly his life.The gruesome rumors have filtered up to the highest levels of the fleet admiralty. The AI Nekomata has been resurrecting corpses to crew its stolen ships, and using them to fight on behalf of the elusive Federation. Faced with this intractable enemy, Tarillion must summon allies...