Dylan volunteered to serve after The War began, and was quickly sent to the Marine Force Recon branch. He spent the early years of The War performing “deep reconnaissance, unconventional special operations, and direct action missions” against the Shang and their Chinese allies. That ended the day he infiltrated and destroyed a Shang spacebase alone, hijacked one of their fighters, and then proceeded to assault a small Chinese task force in the system. He inflicted heavy casualties on the Chinese before withdrawing to a nearby American carrier, and the Marine Corps decided they needed to give that man a starfighter. They sent him to the fleet base at Sunnydale where we were preparing to invade the Hyades Cluster. And that is when he walked up and informed me that he wanted to join my Cowboys. The rest, as they say, is history.

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