Encounter with the Hemogeny

Humanity thrives across the galaxy centuries after escaping Earth thanks to revolutionary stellar and interstellar engines. One of man's peaceful explorations into unknown space collides with the insectoid Hemogeny, Earthman's worst childhood nightmare. Luckily, the research ship "Curious" escapes their initial attack to finally meet with an escort fleet of small destroyers to escort the Curious home. Captain Teach must warn the Alliance in the Humanities capital, but gets sidetracked by a pirate attack on a freighter just after the brilliant alien Jemma and the Earth scientist develop an interstellar tachyon ship wake tracker. Excited, the captains of the joint task force returning to Kirkland, the capital, decide to test the device when they answer an SOS of a freighter being attacked by Pirates. The small navy fleet unknowingly trailed the pirates to a massive hidden base with a terrifying weapon. Now, the Curious, armed with reinvented weapons and a squadron of eight human destroyers, choose to do their duty. This time, they have an unexpected ally: Jemma, an ex-Hemogeny enslaved person in her fight for freedom. Can they survive the pirates and expose the weapon before it unleashes unimaginable destruction? As the intelligent Alien learns choices, she begins to settle on a plan to rescue her people. To do that, she must first save the Humans from themselves.