Berserkers. Ancient, legendary machines of death that annihilated their makers. Rouges loose on the universe, they destroy life wherever they find it.

The Empress of the Eight Worlds has been assasinated, and Prince Harivarman, an unwilling exile, knows he will be next. Alone on the Radiant Templar, except for his servant, his girlfriend and his newly-arrived wife, he discovers a deactivated berserker -- an operable one. He also finds an ancient berserker code. Can it be the one that controls the berserker?

And dare he unleash it?