Introduction: The count down to extinction started ticking with first contact. advanced alien ships unleashed unprecedented technology upon outer colonies. Armored, crab-like ''bugs'' swarmed, leaving devastation in their wake.No communications were ever sent, no offers to negotiate ever replied to, just a inexorable march one colony at a time. It didn''t take long for the petty disputes of nations to fall away. The Sol system united for the first time under existential threat, ruled by a Military Junta willing to pay all costs for survival. When Victoria heard extinction at the hands of a vague alien threat was on its way she dropped out of University, hugged her mom goodbye and enrolled in the naval academy. After 4 years of education and another 7 sitting frozen in cryo the situation seems ever bleaker. Selected for a mysterious project, Victoria finds herself compelled to learn far more than she ever wished. The threat of annihilation looms, both closer and more personal than she could ever imagine....