As the crew from the Montreal gets to know their new ship, and serve with new crewmembers, they are dispatched on a shakedown cruise to Bajor. Even now, 21 years after the war, there are still tensions over the fate of some Bajorans. Tensions that the Astraeus needs to investigate and resolve before a new conflict can ignite.
As the Astraeus begins to enter the region of the Eagle Nebula, an unusual subspace field begins to make communications with subspace buoys spotty. Mei’konda makes the decision to investigate, and the Astraeus discovers the outskirts of the Falwen Collective.
