Summary
It all began with a tragic mistake and it ended with the death of Dukhat, leader of the Minbari at the hands of a panicked EarthAlliance crew, lead by Captain Michael Jankowski. It was a tragedy compounded by an enraged Minbari people, the most advance of the younger races in the local sector, who vowed a war of vengeance on EarthAlliance and her colonies. It was a terrible mistake as vengeance soon turned into a holy crusade to exterminate all of humanity.
The technological advantage of the Minbari was overwhelming. The Minbari warriors showed no mercy in battle, and gave no quarter to prisoners. The Minbari leaders ignored every plea, and accepted no surrender, not even when EarthAlliance willing offered Captain Michael Jankowski to make amends. Every EarthAlliance colonies the Minbari captured, they sterilized of every man, woman and child.
EarthAlliance fought back as best as they could but they was alone. No alien race would stand with them, not even trusted allies during the Dilgar war. Defeat, death and extinction were only a matter of time for EarthAlliance and her colonies, until a chance encounter with an Archeological and Survey vessel of the 5th Imperium.
Now all that stands in the way between humanity's extinction in the local sector is Her Royal Highness Princess Maat Edith MacIntyre, fourth in line to the throne of the 5th Imperium, Princess of Aalat, Princess of Shabaka, Princess of Surrey and Senior Fleet Captain of the Archeological and Survey planetoid Nintu.
Yet this hope rest on young and inexperienced shoulders. Princess Maat is barely a hundred and nineteen years old. She has little personal experience waging a campaign of interstellar war on an alien species. Nonetheless she is forced by the Directive One of the Fleet Central Computer Central 'Mother', to stand and fight in the name of the Emperor and in defense of the human species, no matter the odds.
Princess Maat will have to rely on her iron will, her sense of duty, ten decades of training, her complement of 350,000 Imperial Marines, 80,000 planetary defense aerospace fighters, and 3400 parasitic sub-light battleships and lastly her starship Nintu, a 5th Imperial planetoid warship, measuring 4284km in diameter.
Although Nintu is capable of destroying medium size suns and laying waste to a dozen planet dependent civilizations, Princess Maat is alone in hostile space and 6 years from the closest Imperial fleet base. Her brave crew of 4 million cybernetically enhanced men and women are outnumbered by the Minbari species 10,000 to 1.
Now as war loom on the horizon, only one question remains to be answered. Will the Minbari see reason and meet humanity at the peace table? Or will the Minbari do the unthinkable and continue a war that will lead to a billion deaths and the genocide of a species. Princess Maat can only prepare herself and her crew as she faces her first trial as Senior Fleet Captain, sworn defender of Humanity!