One marine platoon was packed aboard a Navy colony ship as a deterrence against pirates on a milk run safe-guarding a hundred thousand sleeping colonists and a few thousand Navy 'squids'. Half the platoon are grizzled, blooded veterans -- and half are baby-faced kids fresh out of training, including the platoon's lieutenant. With a hundred thousand colonists on board, the stakes are already too high when a 'mistake' lands them all halfway across the universe with no easy way home in their lifetimes. Colonial politics, terror cells, and the hazards of space are only part the problem; zombies, demons, magic, and gods with a bone to pick might be more than one platoon can handle.
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