Lieutenant Nova Whiteside, traveling through deep space aboard a military prison ship, faces an insurmountable foe when the ship is incapacitated and boarded by powerful alien entities. Who'd bother with this old barge? What could be so valuable here as to risk attacking a Union vessel? Written for her fans, Fog Of War is another glimpse at the life and career of Nova Whiteside, this one set sometime after she was banished to the Badlands after that incident on Bellac Tau.