The Morrigan continues its hunt for intel about their new enemies, preparing to visit a system on the farthest edges of what they consider the frontier. They send their new acquisition, the powerful gunboat to scout ahead, to provide them with an early warning in the event of a large enemy presence.What the scouts discover instead is a stalwart human settlement under the control of the ervas and a desperate resistance attempting to reclaim their home. As the Morrigan arrives and finds itself trapped by a powerful beam from the planet's surface, all must race against time to uncover the mysteries of the planet and save all their lives.