When the king of a galactic alliance mysteriously disappears, a powerful family, the Morgansterns, begin to make a claim for the throne, hoping to sweep it out from under the reigning monarchs, the Von Hohenstaufens. Lines are drawn in the sand as the four planets fall into war and chaos.

Meanwhile, people are beginning to dream about a dimension of unfathomable horror but their cryptic mumblings go unheeded.

"Can you hear the deep?"