Following his successful mission to recuperate the missing warship ESS Crimson, Captain John Duggan finds himself unredeemed in the eyes of his superiors. His responsibilities resume and this time he’s provided something easy-escort a cargo dispatch to a distant planet and take it house safely. But battle is hardly ever so predictable and a straightforward mission becomes something a lot more important. The outcome may determine the continuing future of humanity.

Someone has terrible plans for the ESS Crimson and Duggan is about to look for himself party to endless damage. Even as worlds die, a fresh threat is waiting coming.