The main storyline features the completed Carnifex-class Super Star Destroyer which was featured on a construction status at the first novel. The Carnifex is the predecessor of Sovereign-class Super Star Destroyer. As revealed in the novel, The Emperor appoints Patraleias in command of the Star Destroyer. Patraleias without losing any time leaves Kuat in search for the hidden Jedi bases. In the meantime Valens Silvertongue is kept hostage at the Empirical, Lord Vader's personal flagship. Cassus Starkiller now having become an Agent of Ossus leaves for Magnor to recover. Valens is known to have sustained a lot torture both mentally and physically, having being damaged beyond repair. To his eyes the light and the dark seem the same. Cassus cannot abandon his apprentice, but he cannot betray