Cassiopeia is an Escort Class Starship in the Benzae Union. She’s on a mission critical to the survival of that Union, against the invasion of the Mirix Imperium which has already claimed four of their thirty-three star-systems.

The problem is she’s lost her command crew at a crucial point in the mission, and her chances of getting home without one are negligible at best. Fortunately, the system she was flying to while making repairs was inhabited, the third planet from its sun. She just needed to pick up a new crew, a human crew, without creating deleterious effects on the planet and world governments in her wake. Then she and the crew could cross enemy space and get home, so she could complete her mission and save her people.

What could possibly go wrong with that?

Note: This Space Opera is told from the third person limited, in multiple points of view.