Twin Stars is an epic science fiction adventure story set during the dying days of humanity’s first Empire of the Stars. With the death of the Emperor, the empire has fallen into civil war, and a great struggle has begun between the military, the merchants and the former nobility over what will become of the fallen civilization. Into this situation is thrust the talented young military officer Albert Tysen and the ambitious space pirate Zhang Ping-An. Each has a dream of what the fallen empire may become, and both spiral around each other on a collision course with destiny.