El – Aurian Captain, Taesin Girau has a deadline to meet…

The new CO of the USS Atalanta suffers from a case of writer’s block as she prepares to write an important academic paper for her old alma mater, the Daystrom Institute, and with only days left before she assumes command of one of the Fourth Fleet’s newest Noble – class Explorers, the perfect of idyl of the planet Colludia II should provide the perfect setting.

Yet attractions abound and delicious as some of these distractions may ultimately prove, the clock is most certainly ticking.