An AI named Mara, from the late 21st century, abducts a disparate collection of 5th century people and maroons them on a world many parsecs from Earth. It's a desperate gamble to give humanity a minuscule chance for survival in a merciless galaxy, Lucius Bernius, a Roman general, awakens with no recollection of his past. He, along with scholars and soldiers plucked from the Roman, Byzantine, Persian, Gupta and Sung Empires, find themselves...