So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down today.
Nothing gold can stay.

– ‘Nothing Gold Can Stay,’ Robert Frost

Previously:

An encounter with a pirate group calling themselves the Wild Hunt left the USS Endeavour badly damaged. With several senior staff killed and their captain out of commission, Commander Matt Rourke, a veteran investigator and combat commander, has been dispatched to take Endeavour and lead the pursuit. Initial investigations in the Midas Sector, its border worlds oft-overlooked by an increasingly inward-focused Federation, revealed a region trapped in fear of a powerful group – not least because the Wild Hunt appears to be led by a former Starfleet officer, Erik Halvard, presumed dead three years earlier under Rourke’s own command.