Alice continues her training at the new Haven Fleet Academy and the curriculum is only getting harder. When the news that her father's ship, the Revenge, has gone missing reaches her, she is confronted with the terrible reality of the war raging around them. With resources already stretched to their limit and relations with allies strained, Haven Fleet must assemble a small force to search behind enemy lines. The war increases in intensity as enemy territory grows, new allies present themselves and the greatest interplanetary war humanity has ever faced grinds on.