Sidus, an undiscovered planet strewn within the Milky Way is the capitol of the Imperium. Inhabited predominantly by the Nin, an alien race that lords over its vassal dominions with an iron-fist. Over millennia the seeds of Imperialism planted blossom in tragic ways. A terrible secret places billion of its subjects & the celestial bodies they call home in harm’s way. Knowledge of which unrolls the sorrowful panorama of Excelsis Deo’s already lost innocence. Plaguing the decorated Nin warrior with disillusion & the ruptures of a starved soul. Burdened by the hopes, dreams & fears of not only his race but a myriad of species; will he live to the pulse beat of his time or shun being a political pawn in a far-reaching power struggle?
This novel is a meditation on mortality. An exposition of a planet’s demise and a crumbling empire along with it. Will the Nin grapple for survival in expedient resolve or ambivalently resign to a pre-ordained fate?