“I have looked upon all that the universe has to hold of horror, and even the skies of spring and the flowers of summer must ever afterward be poison to me.”
-H.P. Lovecraft

Fate draws the USS Fresno back to the research colony of Pieris IV. Will they have to liberate the occupied world from the Vaadwaur Supremacy alone?  Not if they can put aside their misgivings and trust a former enemy….