THE CASUALTY REPORT


Admiral Rebecca Torres stood on the observation deck of the UNS Dauntless and watched the stars. The ship had been at the edge of the Helios Theater for eleven years—eleven years of patrolling a frontier that stretched across four light-years of nothing, waiting for an enemy that never came.


The Helios Theater was where the Interstellar Coalition's war with the Separatist Alliance had stalled into a cold conflict. Neither side had won. Neither side had stopped fighting. The war had been going on for forty years, and Rebecca had been a soldier for twenty-five of them. She had seen action in the Proxima Campaign, the Alpha Centauri Defense, and the Sirius Relief Operation before being reassigned to this posting—a glorified lighthouse at the end of the universe.


The Dauntless carried 4,200 souls. Crew, support staff, their families. The ship was a floating city in the void, and Rebecca was its admiral. She was responsible for th

THE CASUALTY REPORT

Admiral Rebecca Torres stood on the observation deck of the UNS Dauntless and watched the stars. The ship had been at the edge of the Helios Theater for eleven years—eleven years of patrolling a frontier that stretched across four light-years of nothing, waiting for an enemy that never came.

The Helios Theater was where the Interstellar Coalition's war with the Separatist Alliance had stalled into a cold conflict. Neither side had won. Neither side had stopped fighting. The war had been going on for forty years, and Rebecca had been a soldier for twenty-five of them. She had seen action in the Proxima Campaign, the Alpha Centauri Defense, and the Sirius Relief Operation before being reassigned to this posting—a glorified lighthouse at the end of the universe.

The Dauntless carried 4,200 souls. Crew, support staff, their families. The ship was a floating city in the void, and Rebecca was its admiral. She was responsible for th

THE CASUALTY REPORT
THE CASUALTY REPORT Admiral Rebecca Torres stood on the observation deck of the UNS Dauntless and watched the stars. The ship had been at the edge of the Helios Theater for eleven years—eleven years of patrolling a frontier that stretched across four light-years of nothing, waiting for an enemy that never came. The Helios Theater was where the Interstellar Coalition's war with the Separatist...
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