Prologue.
944.M37 Imperial Calendar.
Retrofitted old Consortium Vessel ‘The Valiant Star’
The disembodied thing that had once been known as assistant magos Rho-Karun,stretched its perception into the network of ocular receptors that were scattered throughout the Living areas central room.
Now elaborately decorated and fitted with comfortable bedding for the Valiant Star’s remaining indentured Ymiri ‘servants’, all fifty of whom were women. The patchwork bits of brain and grey matter of both Karun and three other now deceased individuals, prepared to interface with the small army of vat grown servitors that he had specially grown and forged for this moment.
Had Karuun still possessed lips at all..he would be licking them in anticipation for what was coming.
But he had recently discarded his remaining living body completely, and after his successful mutiny against the Valiant’s Arc Shipmaster Jour-Omnica, he had ascended completely by installing his cybernetically augmented brain into the ships command throne, claiming a piece of the former Shipmasters frontal lobe in the process.
The other Magos had been similarly dealt with, their knowledge and resources now his.