The planet Equus is gone, and the survivors spread to the stars.

But with the loss of the home world, tensions rose regarding the future of its survivors. The tentative peace that came with the nations of old fractured, and lines were drawn along the borders of ideas, forming many new empires among the stars that have lasted for centuries.

Swift Claw is a young griffin on his way to becoming a starship technician when he comes across an old journal written in a long dead language that holds a clue to something that may be the key to bringing back the peace of old.

Now, he must leave his home and travel the stars, pursued by those with vested interest in what he found... either to aide for their own reasons, or eliminate him as a threat to the way things are.

Swift Claw doesn't know who he can trust. All he knows is his only hope of survival is following the clues and staying one step ahead of the galaxy.