A revised version of my first space opera series ...
The 
			Empire – a tyranny stretching over thousands of worlds. 
			The grand dreams of the founders are a joke. 
			The Thousand Families, the rulers of the Empire, care nothing 
			for anything, save their own power. 
			From the undercity of Earth to the new colonies at the Rim, 
			discontent, anger and rebellion seethe, but there is no hope of 
			breaking the power of the Empire and freeing the trillions of 
			enslaved humans and aliens.