{"product_id":"crisis-of-empire-2-cluster-command-by-william-c-dietz-1989","title":"Crisis of Empire #2: Cluster Command by William C. Dietz (1989)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTheir finest hour, or their final days...\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe first Empire has entered what may very well be its last crisis: the Emperor is dead by assassination and has left an infant heir. Worse, the imperial mystique is but a fading memory: nobody believes in empire anymore. Indeed nobody believes in much of anything beyond the boundaries of self. There are exceptions, of course, and to those few falls the self-appointed duty of maintaining a military-civil order that is corrupt, despotic - and infinitely preferable to the barbarous chaos that will accompany its fall.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOne such is Command Anson Merikur.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is his story.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ex Libris Used Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44079976677603,"sku":"EXL1287","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/5675\/7951\/files\/2953085.jpg?v=1698173816","url":"https:\/\/www.exlibrismichigan.com\/products\/crisis-of-empire-2-cluster-command-by-william-c-dietz-1989","provider":"Ex Libris Used Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}