Plague Planet

Things just weren't looking good for John Henry Irons, Fleet Admiral of the once mighty Federation of Sapient Planets, ever since his awakening five years ago he'd been through the ringer emotionally.
First he'd found that his beloved civilization had been destroyed. He had vowed to rebuild however.
Twice in moments of seeming triumph he was cut down, kicked out or driven out of a system he was trying to help.
Now things were starting to look up, he had his own courier ship, the Phoenix, to ...