The Alliance fleet is damaged and depleted after a series of violent clashes with their enemies, the Syndics. Commander Captain “Black Jack” Geary fears that their adversaries are catching on to their tactics - can he persuade his weary fleet to attempt a potentially deadly gamble?

/meanwhile Alliance intelligence gatherers alert Geary to the possibility of another potential antagonist in the war - a mysterious power that may have the means to annihilate the human race…

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