The battle in the Epsilon Eridani system is entering its decisive phase.

Skun ships are attacking the orbital fortifications with great force, but the battle-hardened colonists are not going to give up the ground easily. Although small in number, quarrelling and divided, they put up fierce resistance to the enemy, one by one destroying the stone cruisers and decimating their support.

Amidst the turmoil of war, the fates of scouts sent to search for the missing convoy; the trawler "Arrowhead", whose captain desperately wants to destroy the wreck of Oumuamua, the crews of the cruisers "Frontier" and "Pandemonium", and Commander Tsugawa, are all rushing to the rescue in a captured bulk carrier converted into a warship, intertwine.

The alien mother captured by Colonel Dressler and Oli, as well as the inhabitants of the planet AEgir, anxiously looking at the sky above their heads, illuminated by the glow of countless explosions.