It is the 5th month of the year 2025, and Commander Ezecheon has been in the 'Efcalon System' for 9 months now. As soon as he arrived the enemy had already invaded the 3rd planet in the system 'Ebon'. After 9 days battling throughout the system, followed by a 3 week campaign to obliterate the enemy off the face of the planet, Ezecheon's fleet spent just short of 2 months guarding the system from enemy convoys trying to take back the planet, before they gave up. But for how long Ezecheon wondered, the enemy never gave up. They had populated over 5 times of the universe than his people, and although their forces were of equal strength, they could easily win by numbers alone.

Since he had entered the system he had lost one of his scout ships, one of his Intergalatic Class Frigates, and a 3 squadrons of starfighters off other vessels. It wasn't that much of a lose considering how many enemy vessels very destroyed, but Ezecheon had just got his fleet, and he was already losing it, he felt like it was his fault for bad commanding, but it was he good commanding skills that had prevented more forces being lost. On top of losing ships in his fleet, he had also lost soldiers in the planet campaign, although a lot of the forces on the planet were already stationed units, and civillian support, he still felt that the loses were his fault, a feeling that any newly appointed commander felt. In normal circumstances a Highguard Commander that performed badly would have been removed from his post, but these were not normal circumstances with the war being at its peak, and Ezecheon was not a bad commander.