Christopher "Maverick" Blair and Todd "Maniac" Marshall are assigned to the Tiger's Claw for training.
Blair and Maniac encounter a Confed war hero turned renegade.
After the Tiger's Claw enters a binary star system, it is attacked by two Kilrathi fighters that have been caught in an astroflare coming from the binary star. Four fighters are send to neutralise the threat but in doing so become mentally unbalanced from stellar phenomena. The pilots begin to exhibit erratic behaviour and start to believe that the Tiger's Claw is a Kilrathi Carrier.
Blair and Grunt crashland on an alien world, but they're not alone...
Blair and Maniac land on an alien world where the local savages worship the "Lords of the Sky."
Tolwyn meets an old "friend" - who just happens to outrank him now!
Tigers Claw discovers a Kilrathi fighter towing a mysterious life pod.
Blair, Maniac, and Archer pursue Kilrathi fighters to a lush tropical planet where things are not as they seem.
The Kilrathi have a new and terrible weapon: the Stealth Fighter.