Following humanity's disastrous discovery of sentient extraterrestrial life, and with public opinion rapidly moving towards blaming the "aggressive nature" of Naval High Command as being the reason why first contact with an alien culture resulted in hundreds of deaths, the former cadets of Flight Methuselah are given shore leave while the INS Heinlein is stripped of her University Frigate designation and outfitted as the warship she was originally meant to be. Taking on a complete crew and the final phase of the Navy's long-range fighter experiment, Project Baskerville, the Heinlein's first objective as part of the active fleet is set just a day after Methuselah settles in for their vacation when another alien ship appears on the fringes of explored space and ambushes the Tiaha Migrant Fleet, birthplace of one of their own. With little time to recover from their own losses, the new marines of Flight Methuselah head back into space to escort the Tiaha fleet to the Lalande Repair Yards in Colonial territory, discovering along the way that not all of humanity was as unaware of the existence of the incursion aliens as they had once believed. INCURSION VECTOR is the sequel to CADET FLIGHT METHUSELAH. Currently updating on Mondays.

In their final year onboard their assigned university frigate, Nim and Seig have their sights set on receiving their pilot wings and taking up full commissions in the Interstellar Navy—provided they aren't discharged first on account of their penchant for staging elaborate ship-wide pranks rumored to have caused the abrupt resignation of the previous Headmaster Captain. Everything changes when their university frigate makes an unscheduled jump into non-aligned space and they find themselves on the front line of humanity's first contact with another sentient, spacefaring species. The thrill of being among the first people in mankind's seven hundred year history of galactic expansion to encounter alien life is quickly extinguished as the alien vessel opens fire on their ship, sending out only one repeating broadcast as to their intentions: “Your destruction is the Will of God.” Four months before their official graduations, Nim, Seig, and the entirety of Cadet Flight Methuselah launch their marauders into the fray against an enemy whose capabilities are unknown, learning quickly that their days of flying combat simulations are over. There are only two grades being handed out this time: pass and live, or fail and die.