The new Romulan embassy in San Francisco was attacked during its opening ceremony. Key dignitaries have been killed and others are heavily wounded. The emergency chain of command has been activated with Fleet Admiral Sturnack’s hospitalization at Starfleet Medical. Elsewhere trouble is brewing as evidence mounts implicating the Romulan Star Empire in the disaster in the Chalvana system. With one planet crippled by the disaster and a pre-warp civilization utterly wiped out on another urgency is building to identify and address the threat.