Horror breaks out into the vastness of the Galaxy. States collapse one after another, millions of people die. Blood flows overwhelm the planets. The name of Nightmare is Empire, Deaths is Ivan de Berg. Half human, half machine, he leads fanatically loyal legions to battle. Everyone is ruled by naked logic, and all his actions and deeds for the sole purpose: to unite the world at any cost. Cur? What for? Does the end always justify the means? The emperor is desperately trying to preserve the remnants of the human component, but every day the machine inside him more and more subjugates the little that remains of the personality of the former baron...