The War with The Locknar Hegemony is coming to an end. The enemy has been beaten back to their home in the Orion Nebula and an invasion of one their strategic star systems is underway. Lieutenant John Winslow Pratt, a rising star within the United Earth Union Navy, finds himself going from Hero to Traitor as an unknown alien encounter leaves him with missing time and a memory of a dead co-pilot. Arrested on charges of Treason, Pratt's future seems uncertain until the aliens come back for him, their purposes unknown. After an escape from the battlefield with help from Alliance Intelligence Agent, Ariel Dubois, Pratt starts a quest to unravel the mystery of his missing time and his value to the new threat.Pratt is no stranger to controversy but he may be in over his head as he is chased from the Orion Nebula to an Alliance Border System to the innermost circles of Locknar Royalty itself in search of answers and Justice. Answers lead to more questions and each step moves him closer to uncovering a vast galactic conspiracy older than recorded history that shakes the foundations of what he knows to be fact and change the fabric of his reality forever.