It is a dark time in the galaxy. Ten years after a new age of Empire birthed a resurgence of hope across worlds exhausted by war, the reality of totalitarian rule has taken shape. On a thousand, thousand worlds, the iron grip of the Galactic Empire has settled, embodied by the white dagger of orbiting Star Destroyers and the inhuman death masks of the Emperor's fanatical stormtrooper legions. The first flickering embers of rebellion born in the early years of Imperial rule have been crushed, violently and near utterly. What resistance remains has grown cold and hard, by necessity as implacable as their durasteel enemy. In a scant decade, the truth of the Jedi has all but vanished into propaganda and myth.

It is into this age of corruption and arbitrary justice that a dark ship sails. Birthed in a new era of lawlessness on the edges of settled space, the misfit crew of the independent vessel Argo walks the line of survival with danger and destruction on every side, toward an uncertain future...