With Captain Kahun in command, Hypatia joins forces with several other starships to engage in her first missions since leaving Spacedock, concluding with an epic mission alongside Lakota Squadron to deliver a crushing blow to Black Veil Station in an effort to dismantle the Syndicate’s operations and neutralise the the Orion threat once and for all.

But when the ship puts in for repairs and Captain Kauhn takes a temporary secondment, Hypatia is rendered useless for the Vaadwaur crisis, limited to a single sector of Federation space thanks to the technological disruption of stable warp fields, ship and crew watch in horror as the Vaadwaur invades.

When the Blackout curtain eventually falls, a devastating loss brings a new era of uncertainty for ship and crew…