Pulled into corruption and danger, as Earth faces annihilation from alien attackers, Navel Academy Commandant Nicholas Seafort who only wants time alone to think about his past, instead must face his ultimate battle.
Young officer Nicholas Seafort is left to guide 300 colonists and crew members aboard a damaged ship on a dangerous seventeen-month journey to the colony of Hope Nation after all the senior officers assigned to the UNS Hibernia are killed in an accident.
