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(ATTENTION this isn't the whole story, sorry, i just want to test out the idea to see what people think)
"Only the dead have seen the end of war."
Plato may have thought that to be true, but now death only puts people into a new, much worse war. The tattoo is claiming the fallen, and instead of it being a second chance, they are now being hunted by the government...the marked people have a long road ahead of them.