Sophia Sanchez is back again in an all-new, action-packed adventure As the youngest corporal stationed onboard Admiral Kowalski's famed starship Excelsior, she is in charge of a full squadron of starfighter pilots, including her two sidekicks Anthony Bianchi and Meilu Chen. After a new species is discovered on newly-charted planet Gnoman, her squadron escorts an expeditionary team down to the planet to begin relations with the fumpbushtas, a proud, dwarf-like race of intelligent beings. As humans begin communicating with their newfound friends, they make an alarming discovery: A leezhahi force has also ventured down to the planet, promising the fumpbushtas weapons in exchange for what will likely result in them losing sovereignty of their own planet.
Meanwhile, Sophia's faithful bodyguard Gwendiin Naa Xka, a leezhahi who has vowed to protect Sophia to the death, is sent a covert message from her venerated, all-powerful grandfather, pleading with her to return to her home planet of Larzinne to command the entire leezhahi fleet──one that is rumored to be over a thousand warships strong. Can Sophia help stop the fumpbushtas from becoming the latest leezhahi conquest? More importantly, can she and her starfighter pilot colleagues help humans finally take back long-forgotten Earth, an abandoned planet now colonized by the leezhahi? As an impending war for the planet looms, Sophia and Gwendiin will undoubtedly face their biggest challenge yet──as both warriors and friends.