"It's been a weird war." - Post Shade Night Saying The Second Precursor War is coming to a sudden and brutal end. Across the entire galactic arm spur silence descends as the phasic shades swarm out of ansible FTL communication links. Entire worlds are lost on all sides as a the mere touch from an enraged shade is enough to kill. The Detainee appears again in the living world to undertake some unknowable task. Unfortunately, some Atrekna arriving disturb her experiments and bring her attention to the Atrekna. Finally, P'Thok takes on his most diabolical foe ever in a set of archived records unearthed for YOUR reading pleasure by Gurdy's Duck Oil and BobCo!!!!