Awaking from an explosion-induced coma, Greg Mordant struggles to remember what happened to him. An Army Captain, he'd learned how to shield Predator and Reaper RPVs from Russian jamming transmitters. The Russians try to kill him to prevent him teaching Army techs how to do the upgrade.

Captain Greg Mordant, US Army Signal Corps, figured out how to shield Predators and Reapers from Soviet bloc high frequency jamming. Someone, probably Soviet Bloc, tried to kill him and the people he was training to do the shielding. He helped put down an assassin and then, with the help of RAF Security and a US Navy Seal Team, he managed to eliminate a Spetsnaz strike team. Promoted to Major instead of being given a medal for his courageous actions, he went into the private sector to build a new 'close-in' drone, RPV to help locate hostiles before they could ambush ISAF soldiers. 'Watchbird'...

Gabe and Ali Milland were planet scouts reporting to Gil Morrison, Governor of Timoron; they'd made two previous trips to the planet Pacifica. They'd hosted a Canth team that wanted to experience building and sailing a boat on that planet-wide ocean. The cedar strip sloop worked well, but they hadn't expected to confront a plesiosaur marine reptile in an open boat at sea With no knowledge of how aggressive such a creature might be, Gabe had steered them abruptly into shallow water to impede an attack by the gray-green giant: longer than the 28-foot sloop. Now they had returned, this time to...

Major Greg Mordant conceived a new weapon system, Sniperbird, an RPV that allowed a soldier/pilot to fly an e-VTOL drone out away from a base, performing 'C4ISR' procedures: command, control, communication, computation, intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and kill - remotely and much less expensively. Sniperbird was a decarotor design based on Watchbird with an M1A rifle hung below the optics ball. The soldier/pilot could kill hostiles hovering unseen in an apparently empty sky.