Consumed with advancing their War of Unity on multiple fronts, the SolarAlliance may be vulnerable to an audacious, high-risk assault on one of theirmost valued possessions. So rest the hopes of oppressed Helots across the Systemas a plot against the oldest extraplanetary colony moves forward. Once loyalmarines now turned freedom fighters, Captain Narayan, Colonel Rossi, and theirtroops have a golden chance to slow down the enemy war machine...but at whatcost? Mark Long and Nick Sagan return to take a planetary revolution across thesolar system in the sequel to the hit series Shrapnel: Aristeia Rising!