For Lt. Commander Colin Maclntyre, it began as a routine training flight
over the Moon. For Dahak, a self-aware Imperial battleship, it began
millennia ago when that powerful artificial intelligence underwent a
mutiny in the face of the enemy. The mutiny was never resolved--Dahak
was forced to maroon not just the mutineers but the entire crew on
prehistoric Earth. Dahak has been helplessly waiting as the descendants
of the loyal crew regressed while the mutineers maintained control of
technology that kept them alive as the millennia passed.
But now Dahak's sensors indicate that the enemy that devastated the
Imperium so long ago has returned--and Earth is in their path. For the
sake of the planet, Dahak must mobilize its defenses. And that it cannot
do until the mutineers are put down. So Dahak has picked Colin Maclntyre
to be its new captain.
Now Maclntyre must mobilize humanity to destroy the mutineers once and
for all--or Earth will become a cinder in the path of galactic conquest.