Two years have passed since the invasion of Earth by the Galactic Droid Federation and their subsequent defeat at the hands of the Earth Alliance, Orb Union, and ZAFT forces. Now, the Unified Forces have begun to rebuild and expand to meet the demands of interstellar defense. New warships have been built and new soldiers trained on a scale not seen since World War II. With their entry into the New Republic, Earth's United Nations government is now a key player in galactic politics and its colonization project is increasing that role.
Through it all, the soldiers of the former United States Stargate Command that helped win the war have been used in backwater assignments as the UN Forces bulwark in such actions as the Border Security Force. Ace pilots are used as instructors while top tacticians push papers. For Commander Robert Cottuli, this means a desk job as the military attaché for the UN Embassy on Coruscant. However, things are about to change...
The Bothan Confederacy has launched a
series of guerrilla attacks on the fledgling UE colony worlds. When
one of these raiding parties is intercepted and destroyed by an
Alliance task force, it sparks a series of retaliations by both
sides. The destruction of an Earth Forces fleet and the attempted
assassination of an Orb Union ambassador leads to full blown war.
Now
the time has come for Cottuli and the other UN soldiers to take to
the vanguard of the new United Nations Space Command. However, how
can this force defeat the Bothan Confederacy, whose secret military
buildup has given their forces a 2 to 1 advantage in numbers and a 3
to 1 advantage in firepower?