Fellow sci-fi fans. I''d like to announce that this story is, well, dead. HOWEVER, I''ve recently had quite a bit of a mood for sci-fi, and I have wrote something new... which, concidentally, might turn into a rewrite of a significant part of the story above.
Stolen story; please report.
It''s even named identically.
Seriously, read it. I think I finally improved the quality quite a bit.
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/32384/long-war</a>