Frustration with the pace of the peace talks between Earth
and the Kurgan Empire leads the Federation President to order the
immediate repatriation of human colonists and soldiers still being held on
rebel Kurgan planets. During one of these missions, Michael Sheridan and Alan
Cole come across a derelict spaceship. Reported lost during the First Kurgan
War a century ago; it soon becomes
apparent that the key to a lasting peace in the future lies in the past.