The U.S. Merrimack was the finest battleship class spaceship in Earth's fleet, able to stand up against the best the Palatine Empire could throw at them, even able to survive attack by swarms
of the seemingly unstoppable Hive. But nothing could have prepared the captain and crew of the Merrimack for what they were about to face: three colonized worlds--the Myriad--in the midst of a
globular cluster that the Hive somehow overlooked.In the 25th century, the U. S. Merrimack can withstand attacks from a voracious life-form, the Hive, and encounters the Myriad, a colony of a
humanoid species able to evade the Hive by traveling through space using wormholes.