Some Desperate Glory

Some Desperate Glory, by Emily Tesh On a small asteroid, a tiny remnant of humanity cling to their ideology. Earth was destroyed in the Majo War, and most of the human survivors live on one world of the massive, peaceful, and multispecies Majoda civilization that is managed by the Wisdom, a millenia-old transdimensional artificial intelligence. But on Gaea Station, these survivors live an extremely Spartan existence dedicated to revenge. Valkyr has spent her life training as a soldier, just like her twin brother Mags, just like every Gaean child. Now her group is up for assignment; each girl will be given a lifetime job in a section of Gaea to keep it running. Kyr and her brother, as warbreeds, are excellent soldiers and both expect to be assigned as such, but Mags doesn't want it and Kyr discovers that she's expected to spend her life bearing children in Nursery, what with her valuable genetics and all. The capture of a majo serves as the catalyst th...