The Sapien Empire

Shindo Dacan wants nothing more than to escape the broken and battered world he was born into. Instead, he's forced to make machines for a brutal warlord, to secure the tyrant's power. 

Everywhere he looks it's the same; people crying out for a better life but denied it at every opportunity. When a harem slave convinces him to be an agent of change, they seize power together in one swift act of defiance.

Making a better world isn't as simple as taking command of it.

Beset now by rival warlords and previous allies, all seeking their own dominion, both will be forced to ask: Is the world they envision possible? Or are they destined to become the very warlord they overthrew?