When the Blackout sweeps across the quadrant, crippling warp travel and cutting off communications. Ships and entire fleets are stranded. Among them, the USS Valhalla and USS Sentinel are adrift near the border of independent Romulan factions—isolated, powerless, and alone.
With no way to call for help, Captain Xavier Vance makes a desperate choice: set course for Orvax II, a former Romulan colony embroiled in a bitter conflict with the Tal Shiar Holdouts on D’varis. But what begins as a mission for survival turns into a high-stakes diplomatic crisis when the Division arrives to find Orvax under siege—its attackers wielding a relic from the past, a 60-year-old Warbird, the only ship unaffected by the Blackout.
As the crew races to unlock the secrets of the Warbird’s functioning warp drive, tensions on Orvax II reach a boiling point. Some see the Federation as allies, others as opportunists, and Vance finds himself caught between factional infighting, war-hardened Tal Shiar operatives, and the looming threat of total collapse.
The presence of the Warbird, the only known vessel that can still travel at warp, threatens to ignite a war. Between the factions? Likely. Between the Romulans and the Federation? Maybe. Vance must make impossible decisions, which could solidify the independent Romulans against the Federation forever if they ever want to escape the Blackout.
In a galaxy without warp, the greatest danger isn’t the void—it’s what’s waiting in the dark.