The crew of the Veritas must stop an abandoned freighter caught in a tetryon storm and carrying hazardous materials from crashing into a planet home to a pre-warp civilization.
After the capital of the Colonial Coalition is rocked by a terrorist attack, Veritas crew deals with the aftermath and discovers deep divisions that threaten to tear the colony apart.
As two Veritas teams prepare for a friendly competition to test their new retrofitted shuttles on the proving grounds of the Mother Road, an investigation begins on a derelict way station when stores of the addictive narcotic felicium are found hidden behind its bulkheads.
