Terran Republic: Murphy's Lawless

It has been fifteen Terran months since Colonel Rodger Murphy and his Lost Soldiers were dropped in the 55 Tauri binary system. Since then, they have forged an uneasy alliance with space-dwelling descendants of the Ktor, liberated the earlier human inhabitants of the planet R'bak, and driven their oppressors from the neighboring system back into a few fortified cities. But there's another pivotal battle looming before them. With the cooperation of both indigenous R'Baku and the mutually suspicious Spindogs and Rockhounds, the Lost Soldiers have pulled off a delicate scheme to capture an advanced Kulsian corvette. Murphy's worsening multiple sclerosis is becoming impossible to hide, and the corvettes are proving far more difficult to replicate than anything the Spindogs have ever attempted. The only chance to bring all those forces together? Ex-Navy fighter jock Kevin Bowden-now known as "The Admiral"-who has his work cut out for him. Not only is the Harvester fleet coming earlier than expected, but it's bigger than ever before. And its objective is clear: to reassert complete control over the system and annihilate Murphy's Lawless, their allies, and any who would stand with them.

Major Rodger Y. Murphy should have died when his helicopter crashed off the coast of Mogadishu in November, 1993. Instead, he woke up in August, 2125, in a binary star system 152 light years from home. Without any memory of the otherworldly abductors who spirited them away in cold sleep, Murphy and 100 other "Lost Soldiers" have been retrieved and awakened by officers of the Consolidated Terran Republic. Promising to return to the 55 Tauri B system after completing a distant mission, they leave the twentieth century castaways with a daunting objective: establish a base of operations on the main world, using local allies they have yet to recruit and enemy equipment they have yet to seize. If that weren't hard enough, 55 Tauri A, the system's primary star, is rapidly approaching, and the technologically superior powers from that neighboring system always visit during the close approach... to raid, pillage, and cull the locals. Worse, the Lost Soldiers left behind with Murphy were the losers and ne'er-do-wells deemed "sub-optimal" for inclusion on the rescue mission. Defiant and determined to live down that judgment, they have given themselves a different, more suitable label: Murphy's Lawless