The Confederation of Independent Systems fleet anchorage on Rift was unprepared for the sudden and devastating attack by the Xotoli. Until the attack the Xotoli, the only other known spacefaring race, had rebuffed all attempts at contact of any kind. Now in a Pearl Harbor style attack the Xotoli intend to destroy the Confederation's Pleiades Fleet and occupy Rift. All that stand in their way are the men and women of the Confederation's peacetime Navy and Legion. Men like Colonel Dasan Daniel Sand who has dedicated his career to preparing for this very attack. Fleet Admiral Usiche Raurk who must find a way to defeat the Xotoli with only the forces she has left after their overwhelming attack. Private Ja Hu who is just months out of training and now must face the most desperate battle humans have ever fought. Destroyer Captain Ririsa Grogen and her crew as they desperately try to fight back and save their ship. This is the story of the men and women on the Swift Boats, destroyers and battleships; the Legion pilots; the Anjin assassin from Rift; the Legionnaires of the newly formed Armored Infantry; the Von Fleet Corporation's executives; and so many more who must find a way to hold Rift against overwhelming odds.

Merriam Webster con·script- a person who is forced to served in the armed services Dieter Fenes was an out of work and with the Von Fleet Corporation controlling all the jobs you waited until they called. Then Von Fleet corporate security broke in into his corporate owned apartment and dragged him in front of a judge. He had been deemed a debtor by Von Fleet. The judge sentenced him to Debtors Prison. The Confederation now desperate for troops to fight the invading Xotoli aliens and their human hybrids had instituted a draft. Those rich enough could buy their way out of servicing by paying for the military training those sentenced to debtor prison. Before he knows it Dieter is shipped off to a Penal Battalion to fight the aliens. He must learn to fight or he will die. Dieter will join General Dasan Sand and his battle hardened Marines like Ja Hu and Mala Nani for the first invasion of an fortified alien planet by the human race. While the invasion operation moves forward Istas the Anjin assassin has identified an embedded Xotoli human hybrid in one of the highest offices of the Confederation. She must stop the hybrid before it is able to revel the operation to the aliens. **