The year is 2454.
Now everyone Hives and Hiveless, Utopians and sensayers, emperors and convicts, warriors and saints is preparing for war..
Just days ago, humanity stood at the pinnacle of civilization.
But now the secret is out, the balance has tipped, the Hives\' utopian faade has slipped.
The killings were mathematically planned, meticulously organised to preserve the balance to ensure no faction could dominate.
The terrible truth is that centuries of peace were bought with a trickle of secret murders.
Savagery and bloodlust, three-centuries suppressed, have been unleashed.
The once steadfast leadership of the seven Hives is crumbling, soured by corruption and deception.
Three centuries of peace and a hard-won golden age have come to an abrupt end.
The year is 2454