Vorn Hollow was not a single planet.
It was an entire sector.
Fifteen galaxies lay within its borders, containing more than a hundred inhabited worlds, all now under the rule of the Occulus Faction.
According to the Alliance's old intelligence, the Occulus had once been a formidable power, boasting seven Supreme beings, more than three hundred Grand Magus, and tens of thousands of the cultivators known as dark magus, all organized under thirty-two great clans. But those records were decades old, compiled before the faction's betrayal and disappearance from Alliance space.
A power that had hidden itself for so long was certain to possess far more than the Alliance knew.
The Occulus had occupied Vorn Hollow only a few decades earlier, and signs of the transition still lingered. Vast wildernesses remained infested with wandering orc tribes and other remnants of the previous inhabitants that had yet to be completely eradicated.
