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...