PROLOGUE // SI VIS PACEM PARA BELLUM

NO MORALS.
NO ATTACHMENTS.
NO FEELINGS.

"A new identity has been created for you. Passport, a driver's licence. It has been cemented into systems that now consider Madelaine Richards to be a real human."

A page, filled with scans of a passport and a licence, reveals KorTac's creation. A photograph of you, accompanied by the name that feels like an uncomfortable mask; your own version of a hidden identity.

Slowly, you begin to realise his plan. Refusing, however, to admit to it. Not until he confirms it.

"Madelaine Richards is Task Force 141's newest Sergeant."

There it is.