Desperate to escape the brutal front lines, conscript mech operator Antares signs a contract with a corporation specializing in producing augmented operators; she soon realizes that the deal she accepted might be worse than the war she left behind.

**Content Warnings**

-Surgery - while never described in great detail, surgical modification is a large component of this story
-Identity loss /mind control /memory loss
-Evil space capitalism
-Dehumanization
-Death - Background character, but still important to the plot