"... he is steel and ashes, as much machine as he is man - it has been cut out of him in pieces, that warm, delicate cenotaph of who he was (a past incarnation, a gestalt memory), extracted with surgical precision at the hands of time and the bold eviscerations of the New Federation.

saint sebastian with a vengeance, who did not fall from grace so much as he was pushed off the edge as a captured pawn on his knees with no other choice but to show his throat or die. he is the hanged man, the martyr of a failed empire and a relic of a time his handlers seek to eradicate in consolidation of their new dynasty. he has had two names - perhaps even many - but above all else, he is known only as a weapon."

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