We’re back and thank goodness, Commander Jacob T. Grimm, currently assigned as Task Force XO under Admiral Spencer, has received a new assignment. Yet, during his last assigment, he had deftly managed to prevent the task force from entering a Caliphate ambush. One of the things the Consortium had known was that the Caliphate had FTLC (Faster than Light Comms) gave them at a great advantage over Alliance manuevers. They had used that system to setup the ambush and if Jacob hadn’t recognized what they were doing it would have been a disaster for the Alliance fleet. Fortunately, that disaster was placed upone the Caliphate fleet and they were decimated. Back in port, Jacob had new orders. He was to report to Rasputin Station.
Upon getting there he entered the office of the Chief Engineer only to find it his old Chief Engineer Rob Beckett. Rod had been severly injured in on of Jacob’s pass missions with the *Interceptor*. Rod said he had something he wanted to show Jacob so the had a very slient man named Petrov escort Jacob to an aircar which they soon had heading towards the drydocks. Rod spoke up on the speakers in the car telling Jacob that the Governor had wanted to keep something a secret, but it was soon going to be revealed to Jacob. About that time he saw the drydocks and setting there was none other than the *Inteceptor*, Jacob’s former command.
Jacob was stunned since the thought the old ship had been scrapped after their last action. But no, it was getting re-fitted and upgraded as he could see. Rod also told Jacob that he was soon going to get new orders reassigning him as Captain of the *Interceptor* again! Those orders did come and with them came a lot of his former crewmembers. To say Jacob was stunned was the least you could say, but as always, he took it in stride and began to ensure his ship was getting well taken care of.
Meanwhile, former Admiral Wit DeBeck had a new job. He was now Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) and a civilian. This had come about by order of the President, so no, Admiral DeBeck didn’t get to just retire. He also knew about the Caliphate’s used of FTLC and knew the Coinsortuim had to acquire that technology and soon. He had word that the inventor of this tech had died for some reason but his daughter, Dr. Yursa Abbasi was supposedly working on furthering her Father’s work. Yet, she was being held in a very secure location by the Caliphate far beyond the Consortiums grasp, or so eveyone thought.
Nadia Dagher, former Naval Commander and spy for the Consortium, found herself a wanted person for doing the right thing. She was in hiding trying to figure out how to get back into the good graces of one Wit DeBeck, her former boss. But, she should have known that the former Chief of Naval Intelligence knew everything and he proved it by showing up right where she was hiding!
She didn’t know if he was there to take her into custody nor did she know what she would do if he were to try. Fortunately, he had no intentions of doing that, but he had a mission that he wanted her to execute. He wanted her to capture Dr. Abbasi and either destroy the FTLC equipment or steal the plans so the Consortium could begin building their own. This wasn’t going to be an easy assignment. Dr. Abbasi was located in a very, very secret Caliphate base that could only be approached by very specific ships.
As it turns out, one of those specific types of ships was the *Interceptor*! While Nadia was going to have to find her own way to the secret base acting as a lowly servant woman, the *Interceptor* was supposed to come and extract her. This wasn’t going to be an easy mission for the *Interceptor* since they would be behind enemy lines a long, long way. One mistake and they could be the target of the entire Caliphate navy. Still, Jacob Grimm was very glad to have his command back and he also was very pleased to him most of his old crew aboard. Now he only had to keep from getting eveyone killed!
There will be more missions for the crew of the *Inteceptor* althought at some point Commander Grimm should be promoted and put in command of a much bigger ship. I don’t think that will happen in the next book, “A Grimm Decision”, but we’ll need to read it to find out.