Six years have passed since the war ended. With no cure for the alien virus, Earth's population is being resettled on the fringe of known space. One by one, these frontier settlements are disappearing.

Earth is still uninhabitable, survivors are being resettled on the fringe worlds. Admiral Yasuko hunts down former ally, Waresh as a threat to restoring order to the colonies, unaware that humanity has attracted the attention of a very powerful alien race.—Damien Valentine