When man and machine are one and the same, time moves differently. But it runs out all the same.The Asterion Dominion government has fallen, its rulers slain-but in the Dominion, the dead rarely stay that way. A doomsday clock rushes headlong toward the day the monstrous alien shapeshifters known as the Rasu will demand their next tribute of lives. When denied it, the Rasu will burn every Dominion world to the ground...