Having just completed a deadly tour of duty of the expansive Frontier, the Interstellar Space Forces Carriership Yorktown, home of the 59th Fighter Squadron - the famed Storm Tigers - has been sent to the Sondh'mehni world of Brauzz for much needed shore leave, for a respite from the brutal, endless war against a mysterious alien race known only as the 'Cazaunti'. What they got instead was the greatest fight of their lives, as a surprise attack by a massive Cazaunti armada threatens to open a second front in the war and push the already strained Allies to the breaking point. Hopelessly outnumbered and outgunned, the ISF Yorktown, her carrier group, and the pilots of the Space Forces greatest fighter squardon find themselves facing down an ruthless enemy, far from reinforcements and resupply, and the only thing that stands between the Cazaunti and total victory.