Barely escaping death at the stake of the Inquisition, free pilot Popp finds himself aboard an Imperial destroyer engaged in battle against overwhelming enemy forces. After beginning to acclimate to this new world, he is recruited as a cook on a transport ship—unaware that it is precisely this ship, or rather its cargo, that has become the target of the Brotherhood, the pirate alliance of this galaxy. Its ruler, Emperor number Twenty-Seven, intends to redraw the map of the universe according to his vision of a new world order, leaving his opponents no choice but to fight the forces of the Imperial Fleet. Alien worlds, cosmic battles, the games of politicians, and countless adventures—everything the hero will have to go through in the book “Brotherhood,” the first in the new series “The Sign of the Basilisk.”