In the year 2187, humanity is locked in a brutal interstellar war against the Xarathi Dominion, a ruthless alien empire bent on conquest. Earth’s last line of defense is the Orion Armada, a fleet of warships manned by elite soldiers enhanced with neural combat implants. But when a top-secret superweapon falls into enemy hands, the Armada’s only hope lies with a disgraced special operations team and an experimental AI that might be more than it seems.