The Storm Nebula

Return to the Locality for another epic space adventure!
Five months ago, humanity and a coalition of aliens defeat the serpentine Vinkere at the Battle of the Blue Star. Unfortunately, a few scattered remnants remained, and now they have emerged from hiding. Following a string of attacks on human worlds, Captain Simon Marston and the intrepid crew of the starship Pericles pursue the enemy to a dangerous and remote region of space to find out why the aliens are congregating there.
The resurgent Vinkere threat could not come at a worse time. With their forty-year armistice about to expire, the Draxilans, a race of empire-building giants, have once again set their sights on the Human Interstellar Commonwealth.
Meanwhile, the rest of the galaxy is slowly winning the war against the Kalavat Plague and its twisted, animal-like victims. Torina Jadus, Minister of Medicine and Health, leaves her home in the Republic of Tuulan Vee for Arjen, home of the Arretrian crown prince. Her mission to help combat the Kalavat Plague outbreak in Arretrian space has another agenda: to convince the proud Arretrians to join them in the looming war which threatens to engulf not just the Human Commonwealth but the Republic she loves so dearly.