Anima Sola

[Ryummel]

"Hell is empty and all the devils are here."

The Tempest

Prologue here

Ever since the successful recovery of his pod in the middle of the hostile environment that Omega-11 space provided, Oskar Heidrich found himself performing low-tier administrative duties within the Rheinland Military during the first six months, while he alongisde the surviving crew members of the gunboat that Heidrich himself commanded ran through periodic medical checks. These checks were not exactly the kind of procedure that Oskar felt comfortably with ever since he enlisted the Military a decade ago, but given the circumstances that surrounded him and the destruction of the Rosenheim, he eventually accepted the situation.

The Military command were more than aware of the threats that crawled in the Omegas, and the Hessian movement was just one of the many. Fortunately or not, the flight logs were recovered from the Rosenheim's wreck on time for an exhaustive interrogation to take part, where Oskar could only provide the damned name that had been carved deep in his mind since that incident: Vivien Schmitt.

But why and how did a Fähnrich-ranked declared missed-in-action managed to cause such a huge onslaught to the point it left an entire gunboat incapacitated against a couple of passing-by Hessian snubcraft? The hypothesis and assumptions came right away, and while the public report mentioned an attack performed solely by Hessians, the actual report listed yet another case of the sparse group of defecting officers that resided in the Omegas.

Having had provided every bit of information he could and having found no evidences of conspirational elements in him, Heidrich ran through no additional misfortunes as opposed to his former fellowmen, diagnosed with PTSD and living a life away from military duties. He was ready to serve his homeland again, and for that matter, he was called back into the Military Primary Fleet holding the rank of Leutnant.

However, he would soon begin to search for real answers to the Rosenheim disaster.

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