The Tau Fleet expands its reach and learns about the huge area between Earth and the Orion nebula. Boris Kosakov, rescued from a Bolshevik prison in 1920, joins the Tau Fleet as an Ensign. Lothar von Richthofen fights the Battle of Monkey Bureaucracy. After the battle a new prize is discovered, Asgard, a region of space with a dozen engineered worlds. Operation Bifrost begins to claim it. The alien Leepa are discovered and become allies of the Tau.