Clidepp Déjà Vu
(AGU: Border Patrol III)
A novel by Thomas DePrima
Offered an opportunity to command a new covert
mission into Clidepp space that will resolve an
outstanding issue created during her last mission,
Lieutenant(jg) Sydnee Marcola accepts, then makes
preparations to captain the CPS-14 Justice
once again.
During the mission briefing the following day, she
learns that the parameters of the assignment have
expanded tremendously since her acceptance. Instead
of the voyage being a simple delivery, the Justice
might be required to remain in Clidepp space for as
long as two years. The crew size for the newly
revised mission has been expanded from the original
nine Space Command officers and enlisted, plus the
previous Marine Special Ops team and Marine fire
teams from the Denver, to twenty-four
Space Command officers and enlisted, the same Marine
Special Ops team, a platoon of Marines from the Denver,
and a full Wing of Marine fighter jocks and support
personnel. The mission had just gone from a
penetration/delivery/exit operation to a major
clandestine incursion into the space of an
unfriendly neighboring nation currently embroiled in
a deadly civil war.