Following the re-launch of USS Glendale and her participation in transporting Displaced to Starbase 80, CAPT Pullman is asked to remain in command of the ship and support the negotiations between four Earth colonies and the Federation.  The four colonies, mostly ignored for almost two centuries, have suddenly become important ports of call with the discovery of new wealth and shipping lanes leading to and from the Badlands.

Glendale‘s mission is twofold: protect the colonies and the commercial shipping now passing through the sector from pirates and marauders, and facilitate the treaty negotiations between the four bickering colonies so that the interests of the colonies and the Federation are advanced.