“Colonel, I am right here, and I can hear you,” her father said. He turned his head toward Tanaka, his eyes steady and blank. “And I remember you. You were one of the first with me. You saw Mars die, and you were part of the remaking of it in the empire. This is the continuation of that. This is what we were fighting for all along. We will make all of humanity safe and whole and unified.” “Sir,” Tanaka said, “we can do this without mindfucking everyone. We can fight this war and still be human beings.” “You don’t understand, Colonel. But you will.”
