Humanity has spread among the stars and found their place in a small corner of the galaxy. However, a threat looms in the outer reaches of their frontiers, a threat that has arrived at a bad time, as the Terran Republic is in the midst of a civil war against revolutionaries seeking to create a Terran Commune. Will humanity unite against this powerful foe, or will the fledgling civilization crumble and fall into the grim ashtray of long-forgotten civilizations? No one can predict the outcome of these series of events, but there is one inevitability, humanity will be forced to fight for its very existence and seek to establish itself on the galactic stage with a violent and bloody introduction.