***** Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre People’s Republic of China Earth Eight years after the attacks “Congratulations on your new promotion, Commander Liao. She’s a fine ship.” Field promotions could be bittersweet. In most cases, they represented recognition of skill or capabilities beyond your current rank, deserving of reward. However, in this case her promotion represented simple survival; it represented merely being alive after a catastrophe. This, in Liao’s mind, was not an action worthy of advancement and adoration – but the choice had not been hers to make. So much had changed since the attacks. If Liao hadn’t been in Sydney at the time, the attack on Beijing would have claimed her too. An unusually high number of naval officers had been attending their yearly mandatory classes in the capitol at the time of the attack and had subsequently died. Due to her mission in Sydney, Liao was given an exception to the training, which had ultimately saved her life. Sydney had been attacked too, but the heavily reinforced building they were in had saved her.
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