When Humanity's farthest space station and colony is viciously attacked by an unidentified race at the planet Tyndareus, the United Earth Space Fleet must launch a counter attack as quickly as possible, but time is against them. Threats from near and far are boiling to the surface and former allies may become steadfast enemies. Captain Gabriel Lyons, a man displaced in time by a botched cryonics experiment, and Leena Malani of the Planetary Senate, are charged with discovering a potential alliance between the Soliace Regime and the Zeren Empire, suspects of the attack. But as he searches for conspiracies and secret alliances in the present, dark secrets begin to unfold about his past. As the Known Galaxy stands on the precipice of war the driving malevolence orchestrating the events establishes his presence, known only as the Zeftka xuraffe.