Michael Gilmore, Captain of the HMSS Ark Royal is part of the Earth delegation invited by alien race to develop their planet. Passengers are an ill-tempered prince and an inscrutable quadruped alien. His First Officer is on the brink of mutiny, the ship’s AI seems to have turned renegade, and the neighboring vessel harbors a genocidal maniac.

Lieutenant Joel Gilmore, part of a space observation team on the asteroid SkySpy, who come under attack by an aggressive, technologically advanced species of aliens known as the XC’s (Xenocides). Its a race against time for their fellow soldiers to rescue them. During the attempt, the rescue team uncovers shocking secrets of the solar system.