It is the year 3049. Nearly 300 years since General Aleksandr Kerensky took the remnants of the Star League to the deep, unknown reaches of space outward of the Inner Sphere, the Clans have waited for their time to return to the Inner Sphere and reform the Star League in their image of their great founder. The moment arrived when a ComStar explorator vessel the "Outbound Light" inadvertently jumped into space belonging to Clan Smoke Jaguar, most aggressive of the Clans.
Seeing this as an opportunity to launch the invasion, Khan Leo Showers uses the Outbound Light incident as casus belli to break the stalemate between the Wardens and the Crusaders in the Grand Council.
Enter Jayden, a ristar in the 362nd Assault Cluster. He and his Star embark upon a grand invasion of the Inner Sphere to wrest it from the barbarians who despoil it. But, as the invasion degrades into a slog, reality sets in and some in the Clans begin to question their cause, and loyalties will be tested...
