“Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it … one must have the courage to dare.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

The Squadron learns of raiders using what is believed to be experimental weapons to target traders on a distant Federation border. Triumph, Argo, and Argus are dispatched to respond to the reports; while en route, they receive a chilling distress call from a freighter currently under attack. They are to figure out who these raiders are, stop them, and trace where these devices come from.