As part of her new 5-year, deep space mission, USS Venture has been assigned to explore a new sector, which is filled with unusual numbers of ion storms. After weeks of cataloging supernovae, quasars, and uninhabited systems, the Venture picks up a strange metallic object on sensors and realizes it must be an alien ship. It’s spinning slowly, moving slower than light, and emitting strange radiation that is similar to the types of ion storms that plague this sector. However, it does seem to contain indistinct life signs. The crew soon discovers the ship contains a massive forest, inhabited by strange alien lifeforms. The Venture will have to deal with ghostly lights, dangerous plants, and something moving in the shadows stalking them through the terrifying terrain, in order to solve the mystery.

Added to their problems, the Venture isn’t the only ship interested in what is going on. Thot Kert, commanding the Breen warship Nistaan Bur, watches from the shadows to assess the situation for their own unknown means.