What if the ETAK project was something different? Say maybe capital ship shielding or something? The battle could be the discovery of capital ship shielding, maybe a destroyer engages a corvette and discovers it can't kill the vette because it's shielded. Then the main character gets drafted into the "SOC working in conjuction with the GTVI"
and has to go undercover into the NTF to find out what's going on...and discovers what Bosch was really doing in the nebula...
It's worth a try. I'm doing something like that right now actually but since I'll probably never finish it, feel free to rip off my story as much as you want
