MARS—NANEDI VALLES PLATEAUCmdr. Rob Jacobs scanned the small group of men before him. Each was a trained operative, a former U.S. Navy SEAL who had been assigned to FeSFo along with then Cmdr. Culp and Lt. Jacobs. Petty Officer First-class George Raptor was in charge of the nine men. They were the cream of FeSFo. Each had seen action during the build-up to the invasion and the invasion itself. They and their remaining ex-SEAL comrades were an effective fighting group on Earth, in weightless vacuum, and anywhere between. “Here’s the deal,” Jacobs said. “Crazies have placed five hyper-disks evenly spaced around Nanedi City dome. Intel says they will pass explosives through the portals and try a simultaneous blast at those five places, attempting to collapse the dome. You guys are gonna prev

