Destroyer : White Sails Fleet

The war started with a surprise invasion of Geneve system and four other systems barely seventeen hours ago.

Already, the Krevan Republic and its small and outdated navy is losing badly.

Captain Magda Aklyan is on the run from vastly more powerful enemies in the outer system, hiding behind one of the inner moons of a gas giant.

Coms are down, she's outgunned and outnumbered, and she just lost her First Officer and part of her Main Bridge to a petawatt laser that seemed to come out of nowhere.

She's only ever captained a single destroyer before today.

Now she's in command of what's left of the squadron screen and escort: two old frigates and five ageing destroyers.

She's facing an active enemy threat she can't locate with a young, green and scared crew that's barely initiated into combat. And she just had to brevet promote a new First Officer, the brilliant but way too young Ensign Emile Fontaine.

Can she save the escort? Can she learn how to fight and win in space, against such long odds?

On the ground, Jan Wysocki and Zofia Jablonski are leading a shattered company that's also running from the enemy.

They're in the deep forest heading for the only open spaceport, which is already under siege. No one could ever guess that within six months their raggedly little unit will be known to all Orion as "Wysocki's Wreckers." That within a year, it will become the core infantry assault and marine unit assigned to the fateful White Sails fleet. Or that Jan has a personal mission to fulfill. A fate to meet, perhaps even a destiny to reach. How can they know about 'The Ghost'? He doesn't even know himself.