The Galactic Alliance was created in the wake of the Terran - Tholtaran war and its members have lived together in peace for five decades. An ancient race known as the Chroniech, however, have other plans. On the way to investigate another recent attack on a remote outpost, the Komodo Dragon, under the command of Captain Ken Stricklen makes an unbelievable discovery. Knowing the implications of what the Alliance has found, the Chroniech accelerate their plans of extermination. To save the Alliance from annihilation, the Komodo Dragon embarks on an incredible journey of discovery into unexplored space. Can the Alliance survive the advances of the technologically more advanced Chroniech? This is the second book fo the Galactic Alliance series; a hard military science fiction space opera that has been compared to E.E. 'Doc' Smith's famous Lensmen series.