The mighty USS Vindicator-E has fallen, broken and left as nothing more than a burning debris field just shy of the Stenellian Ascendancy's home world of Apsha. Many have died in as a result of the ship's undoing at the hands of Vrith tr'Bak; the Vindicator command team's Romulan nemesis. Now en route to Cold Station Theta, it is up to the crew to pick up the pieces and do what needs to be done to heal all wounds and prepare to rise with the dawn of a new era.