A routine stellar cartography survey goes upside down when the Ride Exploratory Squadron is caught in an uncharted stellar anomaly. No damage, no warning. Just somewhere else.

The stars don’t precisely match up to the database. Local traffic flies insignia that’s almost familiar, alongside ships that read as anything but Federation. And the comm chatter doesn’t sound like anyone got the memo that all of this should be impossible.

Something is very wrong with where the squadron has ended up. Admiral Tondro has a theory.

She’s not going to like being right…