Introduction: [ Spring WRITATHON 2025 ] *New Chapters daily as I can manage.Humanity has colonized stars, discovered alien life and staved off an apocalypse of it’s own creation, heroes and legends rose from that galaxy spanning conflict but now things are stuck in the same old day-in, day-out patterns. When fifteen year old Reginald Reid is given the chance to escape a mundane life spent farming in the hydroponics stacks of his home city to take up soldiering with the Corporate Colonial Infantry, he thought he would get to see the stars, instead he got years of grinding trench warfare. With the dead and broken all around him, he’ll do whatever he must to stand apart for the common soldiers if he ever wants to get off planet in his lifetime— no matter how short it may be. tMBC is a standalone precursor novel to my other fiction, Birth of an AI. It is also a deeply personal story to me, as I started tooling with this idea back when I was being released from the Canadian Forces. *oh yeah, Samuel Silverman did this artwork-- Never do business with that man, he'll rip you off bigtime....