When Admiral Drogni Ortega learned that an old nemesis had escaped death and had risen to power within the separatist Coalition, he did not hesitate. An elite strike team journeyed into enemy territory, to the very seat of the Coalition's power, determined to finally put an end to the greatest traitor in the history of their world. They failed. Now, the battleground shifts. Stranded on a hostile planet a thousand parsecs beyond the borders of the Federation of Worlds, the survivors of Hilthak must brave a treacherous landscape ruled by fearsome beasts and deadly magics to reach the awesome splendor of Nembane Mountain. There, within tunnels hewn eons ago by the primordial power of G'Char, they must stop Rokan Sellas from completing an ancient ritual--one that would transform a helpless captive into a disciple of evil and release a force of unspeakable devastation upon an unsuspecting galaxy.