Hermione prepares for Hogwarts as her mother gets used to the idea of her new future. Part of the short Snapshot Series.

An account of the first days of the TEC, beginning with the Vasari attack on the mostly defenseless Trade Order that led to the necessary militarization of humanity. The story follows Captain Dion, the head of the Capital Ship Atara (300 souls) as he leads the tenuous defense of humanity against a brutal alien invasion across trillions of miles of deep space.