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Perdition-class starfighters have no pilots. The trillion dollar triumph of military engineering and ingenuity instead utilizes a complex, proprietary “neural core” AI to optimally run all systems and make intelligent, strategic decisions in defense of the Nation. The only living being aboard a Perdition starfighter is its Adjutant Engineer, a rigorously trained specialist who maintains the systems and ensures their efficient operation. Or at least, that’s what the propaganda says. Hana believed it at first. It’s what kept her going through the shock of Post Augmentation Trauma Syndrome. It’s what kept her disciplined, kept her focus honed through years of medical school. Until her former commanding officer recruits her into a top-secret weapons program and introduces her to P-555, a footnote in cargo manifests and an empty space on crew rosters. A woman who does not exist. A Perdition-class pilot.