After twenty years spent fighting the alien Kekktekians on the Halgren Defense Coalition's behalf, Captain Thomas Faraday finds himself reassigned to the AI warship Hadrian, and playing watchdog over the terraforming project on Armistice. A quiet, boring job he never wanted, but with a cease-fire in place, his skills aren't really needed. And given his recent trip-up with military secrets, he's lucky to still have a career. What he doesn't know is...