
by RosencraN7z
A god of death, a goddess of victory, and a man who is neither. The ESS Thanatos still bears the scars of a recent defeat after two decades of conflict. Now, one of its most celebrated officers—Lieutenant Commander Vittoria Kymaris—has been brought back from the void and reassigned to its Cadre. At least, that’s what everyone believes. To the Corps members that make up the Consilium’s military—Exercitus Stellarum—Vittoria’s return is a miracle, a gift from Terra itself, a bad joke. To others, an ally and friend brought home after four years of uncertainty. To Klaus Siegel, it is a life that could never be his. Waking to assume the role of a legendary warrant officer generations after his own sudden death, Klaus knows it’s impossible to be the person they lost. Choosing instead to carry forward a legacy, he makes it his objective to use what he's been given to fight for the lives that believed resurrecting her was worth it. What makes a person who they are when everything that made them becomes irrelevant?
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