Finnegan Pearce and the survivors of the Javelin were thankful to be alive when their transport ship, the 'Javelin', suffered catastrophic damage from an unprovoked attack, causing it to crash land on a nearby planet. That was, at least, until they realized the planet they were on was an 'M' class restricted planet, with a countryside chalk full of predatory octoped's.

While Pearce threads a line between survival and the further breaking of intergalactic law in his search for help, Ensign Ethan Cross balances similar, yet different, difficulties: choosing between what's right and what's he's been ordered to. Whether through fate or just bad luck, their lives become interwoven in a plot to destabilize galactic society while threatening to uncover a dark secret hidden for thousands of years; A secret so dark and hidden in antiquity, that history itself was changed to cover it up.