XeneDoesSomething
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"The world doesn't need another hero. It needs a Librarian who isn't afraid of the dark."
In a world obsessed with the "Instinct" of the legendary Admiral-a man who commanded the seas with charisma and flame-you are the anomaly. You are the younger brother. While others sought glory in the heat of battle, you mastered the cold, hard calculus of the manual. You are the keeper of the ledger, the man who knows the exact boiling point of Grade-A turbine lubricant, and the only one who realized that a perfect world is a lie.
When you are assigned to a neglected, salt-rotted outpost on the edge of the world, everyone expects a savior. Instead, they get a rookie with a suitcase full of textbooks and a habit of checking the foundations. The shipgirls of the Sovereign Port are exhausted, treated as expendable variables in a political game they can never win. They don't need a legend to lead them into a glorious death; they need an officer who will fix their boilers, count their shells, and tell them the truth.
But beneath the layers of corruption and rusted steel lies a terrifying realization: "Proper" is a death sentence.
As the Syndicate initiates the Global Audit, you find yourself trapped between a bureaucrat demanding a show of force and an existential void that seeks to un-write the very people you've sworn to protect. To save the harbor, you must embrace the Sync-Sickness, becoming a System Absolute-a living archive of every soul the world wants to forget.
You are no longer just a Commander. You are the Bridge. You are the Ink. And as the marble spreads across your skin and the Data-Frost consumes your memories, you must answer the ultimate question:
What is the mass of a human soul in a world made of data?