In the 25th century, the galaxy is recovering from a bloody, decade long, war. The planets of the Federation Alliance have defeated the once unstoppable Borg, but the cost was high. Countless worlds lay in ruins and once-great empires and socities are mere shadows of their former selves. "Hard" doesn't begin to describe life in this new galaxy it's almost impossible. Yet there are billions of souls trying to live off little more than sheer force of will and, if they're lucky, a phaser or two.

Captain Bryan Davies and his crew live by walking the line between virtue and moral corruption. Not quite criminals, they operate in the darkest, most putrid, depths of Federation space, commanding an old Maquis radier that they've rechristened Starlight. They'll take on almost any job legal, illegal, or ambiguous to ensure their own survival. Perhaps even at the expense of others.