Jack of Harts

The Hyades was a long, hard campaign. A decade of fighting on planets and asteroids and space stations against a Chinese Liberation Army that did not know the meaning of the word “surrender.” Literally. I do not think they had the concept in their mind. China was the Middle Kingdom, the best and greatest of all nations on Earth, and the Han Chinese were the master race that could never be defeated no matter how many barbarians raged at their gates. Defeat was unthinkable to them. Unimaginable. They might lose individual battles, but every soldier that died to our guns knew that they were paving the way to Chinese victory with their blood. It was that inability to imagine true defeat that proved their undoing.