Ensign Orion Murphy is a year out of the Advanced Training program for the Segnal Space Marine Corps. He is assigned to a top-secret mission by Rear Admiral Stanley Parfait, and there is nothing but trouble the entire way. This is the short-story introduction to the "Platoon F" series. It can only be obtained by signing up to the author's mailing list at www.johnplogsdon.com. Note that this book includes an audiobook version as well!

Mission 1 from the hilarious Platoon F comedy series! Lieutenant Orion Murphy is scheduled for execution due to a clerical error. His only out is to undergo a complete physical makeover, get a rank and name change, and agree to take over a new platoon in the Segnal Space Marine Corps (SSMC). Seeing that it's a case of comply or die, he accepts the offer. A week later, he finds himself standing on the bridge of The SSMC Reluctant with a misfit crew, an insane special agent, an antiquated robot mechanic, and his updated identity. Will the newly-named Commodore Don Harr be able to get control of the ship and crew? Can they all survive their first mission, especially since they're not really supposed to? And who came up with this mission, anyway? ...it all makes Harr wonder if execution may have been the better option.

Alternate cover edition of: ASIN B00L193QXW A group of antiquated robots have decided that they've had enough of being treated like second-class citizens. Working together, they take over the sewage plant on Segnal Prime and start pumping the sludge back up into the buildings. Seeing that this is bordering on a terrorist-level attack, Platoon F is sent in to regain control of the situation. Captain Don Harr and his team of misfit androids, along with a snot-nosed political liaison who has no military training whatsoever, must traverse the underground tunnel systems, take on dog-sized sewer rats, and wrestle control of the plant back while trying to maintain a semblance of sanity as they slosh through loads of crap. Sometimes, it's abundantly clear what the "F" in "Platoon F" truly means.

Mission 3 from the hilarious Platoon F comedy series! A space probe that was sent out 500 years ago has returned...sort of. It's actually a copy of the original model of The SSMC Voyeur, which begs the question: What happened to the original craft? The crew of The SSMC Reluctant is dispatched to learn about the originating planet that sent this cloned vehicle. And, if Rear Admiral Conster gets his way, they're also to blow the entire planet that it came from to smithereens. Unfortunately, it's a 50-year trek at The Reluctant's top speed, which means that Captain Don Harr will be a husk by the time they arrive. Fortunately, Chief Engineer Geezer has invented the GONE Drive: a device that allows The Reluctant to instantly travel between two points in the universe. Now, they just have to wait for Geezer to figure out how the damn thing actually works. Follow Platoon F (the special operations team from the Segnal Space Marine Corps) as they blink about the universe in search of the planet that sent The Voyeur clone, and keep following as they try to get away from it!

Mission 4 from the hilarious Platoon F comedy series! After their last mission, the Segnal Space Marine Corps (SSMC) saw the value of the GONE Drive. The ability to move through space in a blink of an eye would be highly appealing to any military body, but specifically to Rear Admiral Parfait who has a bit of a thing for military bodies. Parfait sets a mission in place where The SSMC Reluctant must go to one of the planets that they briefly landed on during their last mission: Earth. Parfait sees the opportunity to...probe another society of human-like creatures and possibly build relations with them. Furthermore, and much to Captain Don Harr's chagrin, Parfait has put in for a title change to Senior Diplomat so that he can join the crew! Chief Engineer Geezer has supposedly fixed the issues with the GONE Drive, even to the point of giving it a version number of 2.0, but it turns out that what he really did was inadvertently put in the ability for time travel. Follow the crew as they hit the Middle Ages, the Mesozoic era, the 1940s, and 2400s of Earth. What will they learn, and will it even be worth it?

Mission 5 from the hilarious Platoon F comedy series! After a close call in the year 2440 at the planet called "Earth," the crew of The SSMC Reluctant makes a quick escape back to their home of Segnal. However, Geezer didn't have time to set the clock on the GONE Drive to return them back to their own era, and things have changed greatly in the Segnal System over the past 500 years. The system is ruled by Synthetic Lifeforms now, and they find humans and standard robots an affront to their intellectual capacity. From their perspective, only Synthetic Lifeforms should be allowed to live. But there is an exception. The crew of Platoon F originally contained the 12 models of androids used to build the new society, and since it was Captain Don Harr and Rear Admiral Parfait who fought to keep the androids and Platoon F together in the first place, they are considered heroes and founding fathers of New Segnal. And where to keep heroes from the distant past? Why, a museum, of course! Now the crew must find a way out, get back to their own era, and set everything right so that the future they've just witnessed doesn't actually happen!

A new master. A tug on the heartstrings. A mission to destroy a planet. After breaking away from the Segnal Space Marine Corps, the crew of The SSMC Reluctant is searching for what to do next. Unfortunately, a race of beings who call themselves "The Overseers" already have plans for them. It's one of those deals they can't refuse. Worse, Captain Don Harr quickly learns that his new masters truly want everyone who isn't an Overseer to die. It means no competition...Fortunately, there is a new political movement that is requesting that entire planets not be destroyed anymore. They crew has to travel to a planet that is making technological headway on a warp drive and destroy the device before it's too late. If they fail, the planet will be annihilated and every member of Platoon F will be summarily executed. To make things even more trying, Harr believes he's finally found the love of his life. Worse, she's the lead scientist on the warp drive project... Warped Conduit is the hilarious sixth installment in the Platoon F sci-fi series. If you like quirky aliens, naughty overlords, and silly adventures, then you’ll love John P. Logsdon and Christopher P. Young’s fun-filled adventure. Buy Warped Conduit today and learn about the minds of the Overseers!