[quote=@Isengrim]
It was hard to put into words the feeling of seeing his crew rising to these challenges.  As a young man, fresh out of officers' school and joining soldiers from all across Allevent in the trenches, he'd been petrified of battle despite his training.  Over weeks of bloodshed he'd come to see war not as the glamorous adventures of his childhood imagination, but as nightmare made living.  It wasn't for several months of pitched battle at the height of the Sorrowars that he finally came to see war as neither high adventure nor terrible tragedy - it was merely the crucible in which you forged your character anew, tempered to ever-greater hardness.

That was when he first started feeling the honest, indescribable satisfaction of leading his men and seeing them grow along with him in the forge-fires of war.  On the other side of the world, nearly twenty years after his own desertion and disgrace, he was seeing it again with his crew aboard the [i]Aleph Null[/i].
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Captain Tightpants!