When a skirmish takes place over a small military fueling depot on the Mid Rim world of Malastare, Bryston Glyder is certain that it is liberators come to rescue him and his family from the tyranny of the Empire. Instead, he finds a young man-only slightly older than him-claiming to be a veteran of the Clone Wars and a member of the terrorist cell RED EAGLE. Shane Borris is certainly all of those things, but he is also hiding a past that is seeped in the lore of long-dead Jedi Order-a past he seeks to keep hidden from the Emperor at all costs. When Bryston's family is caught in the crosshairs of a fight between the Empire and the notorious cell of terrorist rebels, he must pick a side as the beginnings of a deadly civil war erupts onto the galactic stage.