Out of the wild black yonder of the lawless Cheydinhall Sector, the previously assumed lost Stenellis have resurfaced and shown interest in joining forces with the Federation. With so little known about the growing power of the Stenellian Ascendancy, and with their crowned Princess serving aboard the USS ENTERPRISE as an Ambassador, Admiral Red has chosen her two finest ships to begin courting the Ascendancy on their exotic, and beautiful, home world of Apsha.