As the Cross-Temporal Empire slides towards a civil war that will
threaten to destroy the C-T E and its 54 lines, the Clemhorns find
themselves drawn into the struggle. A struggle not only for the future
of the Empire, but for their very lives.
After eighty years of war the remnants of humanity on the Nayarit Line
struggled to survive in sealed domes, surrounded by radioactive
wasteland and genetically engineered viruses. It was in the last,
desperate years of the war that the first trans-temporal portal was
developed at Chiqu, a small research facility on the west coast of North
America. As the domes finally failed and civilization collapsed around
them, Iapura led fifty-three survivors to found a new empire on a
parallel Earth; an Earth where, in 1884, Russian and English armies
faced each other across America's Great Plains, totally unprepared for
the technology of the invading Nayarit.
The Cross-Temporal Empire now encompasses fifty-four parallel Earths.
But with its ruling Council riven by dissent the death of First Leader
Manet, sets the Council into a slow and irrevocable slide into civil
war. A war that threatens not only the lives of the Clemhorn siblings:
Conrad, Arnold, Donald, and Ivy; but the very future of the Empire.
