A reluctant, newly promoted captain is given command of a 90-year old Constitution-class starship brought out of storage and refit during the waning days of the Dominion War. Now, in the aftermath of that destructive conflict, the Gibraltar is assigned to allied occupied Cardassian space. Their mission is to assist with the desperate humanitarian aid effort to rebuild a shattered Cardassian nation.

The crew of Gibraltar is not the finest ever assembled. They are an average Starfleet crew with limited resources assigned to tasks better suited to larger, more capable vessels. Nevertheless, Captain Donald Sandhurst and his crew struggle to fulfill their duty and accomplish their missions during a dark chapter of the Federation's history.

Stories about of the crew of the USS Tesseract, the Federation's largest and most advanced ship, built for the Federation's first official seven-year mission of exploration to the Delta Quadrant. The mission is led by quarter-Betazoid Captain Adele Oyugo and her first officer Commander Icheb, an ex-Borg Brunali native to the Delta Quadrant. Under the watchful eyes of the mission advisory board and enigmatic Admiral Shane Beckley, Adele and her large, eclectic, and sometimes volatile crew uncover an ominous mystery and soon find themselves pulled into a dangerous conflict with implications for the entire quadrant, and maybe the galaxy. Can this crew overcome their own interpersonal difficulties and work together to bring peace to the Delta Quadrant?

Recent history has not been kind to the Cardassian people. Following protracted wars with the Federation and now the Klingon Empire, the Cardassian Union has been absorbed into the Dominion with promises of greater glory than Cardassia has ever known.

Given this tumultuous history and tightly-controlled society, it is easy to look across the border and suppose the support of this alliance--and the attitudes that led Cardassia into this situation to be unanimous. But there is more to the Cardassian people than most outsiders have ever suspected.

And in the wary eyes of the Cardassians, there is more to the Federation than most of its own citizens have ever suspected. Will the Cardassian Union's darkest hour eventually lead to its finest hour?

Explore this question through the eyes of the Cardassians themselves, and those in the Federation with whom they cross paths.

A secretly constructed and modified Sovereign class vessel, the Accipiter is commanded by an infamous captain whose name is reviled and respected in different corners. In the opening salvos of the Dominion War the ship is launched. A disparate and troubled crew must try to uphold the values of the Federation.