Everything happens someday—even the completely impossible. Times and spaces got mixed up; universes converged; the enemy’s gigantic fleets, eager to subjugate the Imperium, are already on the way. But there are those on whom the responsibility for everything around them lies—people who must change the situation. No matter what it costs them personally. They are called the Mad Bards. Others consider them insane. Perhaps that’s true, because the very essence of them is madness. They have nothing but duty. And they perform their duty.