The Sagittarius Expedition

It is the 350th Millennium. Earth has not stood alone for hundreds of millennia. Inhabited by thirty different species and cultures, the United Xeno Coalition once stood as a beacon of Exploration, Progress, and Prosperity. Now it stands stagnated, forced to contend with genocidal neighbors on one side, and an ever escalating, ever agitated, Cold War on the other. Four years after Operation Hellfire repelled an enemy from beyond Real Space, Captain 1st Rank Regina LaCrox has been selected to captain the Northumbria, a massive, multi-generational ark. Her mission: To enter the unexplored Sagittarius Arm, searching for new cultures and expand the UXC's ever widening base of knowledge. At her side stands the richest man in the Coalition, Andrew Anderson, who has used his considerable wealth to drive the Expediton forward. Behind her stand many of the men and women who fought alongside her in the horrors of Hellfire. And ahead of them is the vast region of Sagittarius containing possibility, hope, and dangers never before seen...