Hard Duty

Our last encounter with aliens saw sixteen-point-two billion people killed when the Merkiaari's galactic empire declared war. Captain Jeff Colgan joined the navy looking for action and adventure, and found it in a life of space exploration and discovery. His passion for his mission is rivaled only by his sense of responsibility to the Alliance and his crew, but despite the danger of encountering a Merkiaari warship in unexplored space, his duty to investigate a transmission from an unknown source is clear. Will the Alliance make new friends or will he be responsible for another sixteen billion deaths?