Despite the food, water, and other plentiful resources the Expedition has found in the mysterious nebula 3,000 light years from home, Vice Admiral Redfield’s military takeover has sowed distrust among the Expedition's captains. Captain Cassandra Farren and Director Elizabeth Ancelet find themselves in the Avalon’s brig and the crew of the Guinevere press-ganged into service aboard the CSV Shabayev, while the captured Inquisitor Vadric watches events unfold from within his cell.
Volume Three of this award-winning series confronts the ideas of leadership, cooperation, and prejudice the humans have brought with them to these unfamiliar stars, though they cannot remain hidden from the Advari for long.
Things are really coming to a head with developments that echo other great military science fiction like Battlestar Galactica. In this case, our little fleet is now under a new command as we have a more military focus on things that differs from the direction our protagonists had originally been taking.
But there's still so much to learn about this part of space and the fleet still needs to find all the missing gate components in order to secure a path back home. Will an aggressive military solution be the correct way of moving forward?