Marian Hawke and her followers hunt the archdemon of the Fifth Blight. Then an Empire, from among the constellations, emerges and subjugates the darkspawn. Darth Vader, Commander Pentaghast, and legions of storm troopers arrive to discover why the Force manifests so powerfully on the planet Thedas. The Dark Side calls to Hawke... while rebels Han Solo and Luke Skywalker crash-land.

Protheans experimented on primitive humans. They designed one subject, Kal-El, for one purpose: destroy Brainiac, the machine which wipes out galactic civilization every 50,000 years. Kal-El woke to find the Protheans extinct and Brainiac gone. He has waited millennia, and now emerges to fight. The Systems Alliance and Cerberus grow ever ambitious, while racial tensions rise.