The Resistance Pact’s attack on the Supremacy’s “ally” world, Jassem, has succeeded in taking the Jax out of the fight—for now—and as the newly appointed commander of the 15th’s 1st Fighter Squadron, Ku makes preparing his pilots for the inevitable next battle his top priority.
With its defensive forces scattered to protect its allies, though, the Resistance Pact’s homeworld of Solienne has been left open to attack, and the Supremacy swoops in to capture it. Solienne’s deployed units—including the 15th on Tobe—are left to fend for themselves.
When Ku is injured in the fierce fighting there, he learns his piloting career with the Soli Aerospace Forces is over, and he’s forced to settle on a career with the Qaletaqa, his people’s revered special operations force. But before he can start there, he has a much more demanding task—he must become Wanikiya, the long-awaited Preserver of His People.