I volunteered to kick the Shang to the other side of the galaxy. That was it. The military was never really my career choice. I didn\u2019t want to be a Marine. I just wanted to beat the Shang. And I retired when we did that. I never would have stayed in the military for twenty years if it hadn\u2019t taken twenty years to beat them. Not that I lived through twenty years of my time of course. Hyperspace does weird things to time when you\u2019re going through it. But I still fought for over a decade of my time. That was long enough to give me a belly full of war, and I hope I never have to see it again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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