It is 2347, upon a small, terraformed moon in the Epsilon Eridani system­. For eight years Commander Haves has been heading the tediously peaceful Whitman Station here at the far reaches of Earth's galactic Oregon Trail. The once fearsome commander has submitted to a routine, monotonous existence ­-- with the war over and recovering from his battlefield injuries, it has been a long time since he or his soldiers have seen action. But when a mysterious stranger crash lands on his moon with news of a terrifying armada hovering just out of view, Commander Haves is thrown once more into action. Can he rally his young, pacified troops to protect the new frontier of humankind, or will this new threat prove to be his undoing? The clock is ticking, and the threat is only growing...