"We're traitors and war criminals."

On Nova, no one questions the Council or their decisions, but that is exactly what Aries and her crew did. It didn't go well.

Finally released from the prison they'd been locked in, Aries and her trainee crew are sent back to the Space Corps base they grew up on. Somehow, they're expected to forget what happened to them, continue training and even take on new responsibilities they feel woefully unprepared for under the thinly veiled guise of a promotion. But the past continues to haunt them, and not everyone has forgotten what they've done…