James had always dreamed of inheriting his father’s throne. And then that dream turned into a nightmare.  Within the span of a decade the prosperous Duchy was been betrayed, invaded and pillaged. His father, the Duke, is dead, alongside a million of the finest sailors and marines the galaxy had ever seen.  And he…is sentenced to exile. The last loyalists of the Dynasty stand by him. A mismatched flotilla of ragged warships and weathered freighters, turned away from civilized space and t...