After rendezvousing with the Binchuran fleet on the capitol ship Zeus, Tali spoke with her mother Neema. Neema gives Tali a special mission to investigate a strange object detected on the Binchuran home world that caused terraformers to become inactive.

The Athena fights it's way to the Binchuran home world with the help of a few escort cruisers. A small team consisting of Tali, Redlen, Lemons, Fin, and 2 Red Shirts, land on the planet near the object. The object is surrounded by inactive terraformers, but on closer inspection, the terraformers are not inactive and are actually busy inscribing intricate runes into the stone around the object. Redlen knocks one over and and angers a group of terraformers. He and the Red Shirts distract the terraformers while Tali, Lemons, and Fin secure the object.

The object appears to be some sort of probe or relic left over by an ancient civilization that predates the Binchuans. The terraformers have repaired and powered it somehow. Lemons sets up some sort of sky hook so that Tali can quickly pick it up on a fly by in the shuttle. They pick the object up, but anger a huge swarm of terraformers.

Meanwhile Redlen and the Red Shirts are fighting off the terraformers and sent up a distress single. Tali swoops in, but only has seconds to spare to pick up the crew. Redlen makes it aboard, but the two Red Shirts fall behind. Tali has to make the decision between saving the Red Shirts or letting the Terraformers retrieve the relic. She attempts to do both, but ultimately has to leave before the Red Shirts are on board. One Red Shirt manages to make it by having Fin reach out his shotgun handle for the extra length as the Red Shirt does a running jump from a ledge as the shuttle passes by, but the other Red Shirt is knocked down and killed.

The Athena manages to escape the planet with the help of the two escort cruisers staying behind and getting destroyed. The Athena makes it back to the fleet and the mission is considered successful, but the Terraformers are attacking in full force.

The Binchurans learn from the probe that the Binchuran Relic contains a similar virus to the one on the Icrion Probe, and the Terraformers are likely infected with the same virus which might have been the cause for them to go rouge in first place.

The Athena evacuates the Binchuran system through the warp point before the Terraformers arrive, but something goes wrong and they end up orbiting Ashan. They quickly discover that the terraformers have somehow altered how the warp points are linked by altering the orbit of Binchura. Binchura is now linked to Ashan, bypassing many of the defenses the Binchurans setup to prevent the Terraformers from leaving the system…

To Be Continued.