First Deployment

Science fiction and the scientists lied to us. There was no golden age of discovery. No FTL or Galactic Federations. At first contact we found out how wrong we had been about the future. Then, aliens invaded Earth and crushed our reborn hope. Sam Slate, now known as call sign Eight, is trying to fit in with the new section. He'd travelled through space to finally arrive at a small ship that carries a Marine section around the edges of human-occupied space, travelling from outpost to base to...