
by Paul Fortunato
World peace was mankind's biggest mistake. United under one banner, humanity erased war, hunger, and disease. A utopia of peace, compassion, and cooperation. Then the stars took notice. The Intersol called us forward, claiming we’d earned a place amongst them. But their judgment was swift—our kindness was weakness, our mercy a joke. Too soft. Too fragile. Too naive to stand among real civilizations. Earth was declared a game reserve, a zoo where we could live out our little fantasy of peace. The price of safety? Biomass harvesting—our people taken as food for the cosmos. But there is an escape clause. Wargames. A brutal bloodsport where species prove their worth—or are eradicated. A hundred thousand humans thrown into a meat grinder against billions. A species that abandoned war, fighting civilizations that never stopped. The aliens think they’ve already won. But they never studied our history. They don’t know about our fallen blood-soaked empires, the instinct for cruelty, the hunger for dominance lurking beneath our progress. Humanity hasn’t forgotten war. We’ve just been waiting for an excuse.
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| 1 | Chapter 0: First Contact | 0 |
| 2 | Chapter 1: Struck by Lightning | 0 |
| 3 | Chapter 2: Sticks and Stones Break all the Bones | 0 |
| 4 | Chapter 3: It Feels So Good! | 0 |
| 5 | Chapter 4: Choosing Violence | 0 |
| 6 | Chapter 5: What Have I Become | 0 |
| 7 | Chapter 6: Management | 0 |
| 8 | Chapter 7: The Burning Skull | 0 |
| 9 | Chapter 8: The Drop | 0 |
| 10 | Chapter 9: Barely Human | 0 |
| 11 | Chapter 10: Hijacked | 0 |
| 12 | Chapter 11: The Bloody Road | 0 |
| 13 | Chapter 12: Hinged Flesh and Hidden Monsters | 0 |
| 14 | Chapter 13: One Percent Til Death | 0 |
| 15 | Chapter 14: The Will of God | 0 |
| 16 | Chapter 15: On Earth | 0 |
| 17 | Chapter 16: What Gives You the Right? | 0 |
| 18 | Chapter 17: The Ashen Relic | 0 |
| 19 | Chapter 18: Recycled | 0 |
| 20 | Chapter 19: How to Lose Friends and Terrify People | 0 |
| 21 | Chapter 20: Allies and Actors | 0 |
| 22 | Chapter 21: A Tribe Built on Lies | 0 |
| 23 | Chapter 22: Multinationals and Murder Games | 0 |
| 24 | Chapter 23: Recycled and Ready to Die | 0 |
| 25 | Chapter 24: A Debt in Blood | 0 |
| 26 | Chapter 25: A Vault, or a Tomb | 0 |
| 27 | Chapter 26: The Hundredth Soul | 0 |
| 28 | Chapter 27 - Steps We Can’t Take Back | 0 |
| 29 | Chapter 28: The Heartbeat She Never Had | 0 |
| 30 | Chapter 29: Priorita Has Left the Chat | 0 |
| 31 | Chapter 30: You Must Be This Dumb to Proceed | 0 |
| 32 | Chapter 31: High as Balls and Full of Darts | 0 |
| 33 | Chapter 32: Reap and Grow | 0 |
| 34 | Chapter 33: Sabre Fortunato™: Now With More Murder! | 0 |
| 35 | Chapter 34: Knee Deep in the Dead | 0 |
| 36 | Chapter 35: Off the Rails | 0 |
| 37 | Chapter 36: Emerald Eyes, Hidden Knives | 0 |
| 38 | Chapter 37: More—or Less—Than Human | 0 |
| 39 | Chapter 38: Lets Bloody Do This! | 0 |
| 40 | Chapter 39: Blood on my Hands | 0 |
| 41 | Chapter 40: Boiled Black | 0 |
| 42 | Chapter 41: Signal From a Dead World | 0 |
| 43 | Chapter 42: Champagne Detonation | 0 |
| 44 | Chapter 43: The Joke’s on You | 0 |
| 45 | Chapter 44: A Sex Joke | 0 |
| 46 | Chapter 45: Priorita's Poisons, Stings and Questionable Things | 0 |
| 47 | Chapter 46: King of the Idiots | 0 |
| 48 | Chapter 47: Mistakes to Die By | 0 |
| 49 | Chapter 48: Welcomed With Open Arms | 0 |
| 50 | Chapter 49: They Should All Burn | 0 |
| 51 | Chapter 50: We Are the Monsters | 0 |
| 52 | Chapter 51: The End of the World | 0 |
| 53 | Chapter 52: The End of the Eternal | 0 |
| 54 | Chapter 53: Corporate Sponsored Slaughter | 0 |
| 55 | Chapter 54: Some of Us Would Die to Escape | 0 |
| 56 | Chapter 55: Better to Be Betrayed | 0 |
| 57 | Chapter 56: Death by Banker | 0 |
| 58 | Chapter 57: Kaboom, Baby! | — |
| 59 | Chapter 58: I’ll Be Right Behind You | — |