On the city world of Axxila, General Aayla Secura and Commander Bly trudge through the hell of urban warfare to retake the world for the Republic. But their opposite number is no mere brute like the usual CIS leadership...in fact, Colonel Adreian Reiter was once one of their own.

Decades after the Empire's fall, the First Order builds its strength and prepares for the day it can topple the anarchic Republic and restore the stability of its Empire. At its vanguard are a new generation of Stormtroopers, trained and indoctrinated from birth, taken from slums and orphanages with promises of a better life. This is their story.