[participant in the Royal Road Writathon challenge]

The Empire is at war.

Enemy nations press against the borders, heroes rise in system spanning rebellions, nobles plot and scheme for power. All while monsters from outside space and time are breaking through.

Alyssa Fox is a newly minted captain of Her Imperial Majesty's Eighth Fleet and this is the story of her bloody struggle across the stars of Empire.

Some label her a prodigy, others call her insane.

But everyone knows you there is no great genius without touch of madness.