Heart of Empire or The Legacy of Luther Arkwright is a limited series by Bryan Talbot, published in nine monthly parts in 1999 by American company Dark Horse Comics.

As well as a collected paperback edition, Heart of Empire is available as a CD-ROM containing scans of the pencil roughs, black-and-white inks, final colour pages and high-resolution versions and a great deal of annotation and supplementary material from Talbot.

Twenty-three years have passed (putting the date of the events at 2007), and England has emerged from its artificially prolonged Civil War to become the predominant world power under the autocratic rule of its psychic Queen Anne.

They return to Victoria's world to defeat the true Heart of Empire and source of the imminent catastrophe - a psychic monster lurking in St George's Chapel, created by Anne's attempts to keep her son Henry alive.

Anne is mortally wounded in combat with the Papal Envoy, and Victoria intervenes decisively to stop a massacre of democracy campaigners and kill the fascist ringleaders.