From the Introduction: "And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away." - Ancient Terran Verse The adventure begins with the Explorers waking up in a slavers’ cell, having fallen victim to a press-gang plot. Fortunately for them, the actual parties cunning enough to capture a Rogue Trader and his entourage have in turn sold them into the hands of the Crimpers Consortium. The Crimpers Consortium traffics in considerable numbers of conscripts, but their operation is ill equipped to detain captives as resourceful and capable as a Rogue Trader and his associates, and the PCs should be able to affect an escape in short order, despite being stripped of any obvious equipment and weapons.