Amid political fallout, terrorist attacks, alien abductions, and a widening theater of conflict against Toth, Colonel Harmon's SWORD Squad sets out on new missions. In the decades before the Interstellar Network Alliance Commonwealth, the existential threats imposed upon the civilized worlds of the known cosmos by a common foe persist. As this relentless nemesis never ceases to adapt, expand, and evolve, Toth too will face unexpected challenges to its divine proclamations of inevitability. Vulnerabilities to exploit or propulsion towards the next iteration of its apotheosis? Humanity remains the final variable in the calculation.