The Galactics were vastly superior to species of their own star system and had every intention of keeping it that way. However,they made one mistake, a single merchant which guild bought itself a Roman legion to use as enslaved sepoys on primitive worlds, while other competing guilds had to settle for English longbowmen. It may take a century or so, but the Galactics are about to discover what happens when the sword finally comes out of the stone....