"Alien monsters born from the bowels of his new crewmates, a perilous walk through a lake of feces and sewage...and that's just day one aboard the Skolgnor." It had been a momentous day for Ensign William Bates. A day for which he had worked hard. Top Graduate of the Gladian Naval Academy, and bound to be groomed for admiralty, like his father, and his father before him. Nothing could have dampened his day… Except, his meteoric career path is sabotaged, when he finds himself assigned to the derelict Corvette class vessel Skolgnor. An old ship and a strange ship, but nowhere near as strange as her Commander - the enigmatic Captain Alek Groven. A man whose lowly station to a broken down Corvette belies his knowledge of warfare and stunning strategic acumen. In a confrontation between himself and his captain, William will learn his path. The past will come to light, and an enemy from within will surface, and with it… begins the Last Battle of the Skolgnor.