The Adamant Defense Forces' ship, Ship's Cure, and its crew is no stranger to operating in dangerous environments. But the Adamancy's premier ship, The Long Hand, went on an unknown mission to the distant colonial planet of Juniper and has long since gone silent. Recovering The Long Hand is paramount to protecting humanity from the looming war with The Great Unity, a zealous religious confederacy of alien races. Naomi, the lead engineer of Ship's Cure, and the mysterious boy, Valerius, must uncover the terrible conspiracy that undermines the Adamancy and the new threat to humanity.