I dreamed of a remarkable journey as I traversed the universe. I encountered nothing but war.Harumi "Jax" Brandt aspired to be the captain of a starship. That life came to a devastating conclusion when the Screech, a malevolent alien species, destroyed everything she had known. Rescued by the warship Ares, they granted her the opportunity to fight back, but fighting back had its cost. A price that nearly killed Jax and the Ares crew with her.Now a safe harbor awaits them, a bold new world.A world that offers a fresh start, an exciting adventure, and a place to call home. A world of wonder, a world like Earth, yet differences abound. This is a world conditioning itself, not for serenity, but for armed struggle. A world of factions that should be allies but are hiding sinister motives. Motives that could lead to the demise of the Ares and Jax. These forces are driving against her into a new form of battle. A battle not of armadas and armaments, but of political strategies and betrayal.Jax wants to rebuild her life, but she's locked in a game where she doesn't know the rules. Rules that shift like the sand through an hourglass. And what of the Screech? The hostile alien race is oddly silent in the abyss. Evil grows and the chance for peace, for happiness, wanes. Yet Jax will soon understand that this is how life is on a planet dedicated to war. A warworld called Gaia.