The Dream of Wisdom

The solemn ceremony of appointing young cadets as Shepherds is approaching, filling the atmosphere of Training Center 18 with nervousness. No one wants to end up looking foolish, so the intensity of classes keeps rising—lectures, lab sessions, training on the proving grounds…

Yes, Shepherd service is hard work, but it opens truly captivating prospects that make your head spin!

Neuroimplants that give instant access to the worldwide database just by forming a question in your mind! A personal Alter— a powerful combat droid, practically an extension of your own body! Capabilities and might that even the greatest rulers of the past could not have imagined!

Only the nightmares have been happening more often… Strange, frightening, almost identical dreams that make you jerk awake in the middle of the night, tangled in sheets soaked with sweat. Where do they come from? What are they trying to tell you? Are they warning you, prophesying, threatening? Or are they echoes of something even greater?