Primera Misión

"Primera Misión" by W. Sampas This Spanish-language science fiction serial, published by Ediciones Toray in 1960, depicts a futuristic world policed by the Spacial International Police (SIP) headquartered in Washington. Donald Callowan, the SIP's chief, receives William F. Whitemore, a newly appointed member of the World Council, who requests that an SIP agent accompany his ambitious young niece Sophie to Mars. Sophie, a journalist for the World Review, wishes to report on hydroponic crop operations there, specifically the controversial "deep" underwater farms worked by twelve hundred life-sentenced convicts from Earth's prisons. Callowan, short-staffed but obliging, selects Mike Chase, a newly graduated agent, for his first real assignment: protecting Sophie during her Martian expedition. The narrative emphasizes the SIP's elite selection standards and hints at complications ahead despite Whitemore's assurances that Sophie is fundamentally sensible.