An ancient Jedi prophecy threatens the galaxy when the New Jedi Order discovers that an ancient Sith artifact wasn't destroyed and could break open the barrier holding raw dark side force out of the galaxy. Jedi Master Llori Peroth takes on a mission that was failed by his ancestor, only to meet an unexpected group of Jedi on the same mission...

Sheppard finds himself back on Earth, being reassigned, when he is contacted by a unknown man and asked to go the local bar, where he is knocked unconscious by the man who called him. When he wakes up, he finds himself being held by a man with the markings of a Wraith.. is this really Earth or some elaborate Wraith trick meant to get information from him?