"Pretty much. They're callin' it the 'Global Culture War'; Union wants some big, monocultural society. Thinks the world's put 'peace' over 'unity' or... something like that." She rolls her eyes with a huff. "Course, their idea of unity is totalitarian as sugar."

Two of her teammates have had up close and personal experience with the oppressive force of the Union's singular culture. Yaz's parents, taken away for being 'intellectuals'; her now only comfortable wearing a hijab in virtual spaces. Val/entina, unashamed as anything, including sharing the fact that under the Union they had not been able to be who they are.

"Half of North America's already under their thumb, we're trying to push the line back bit by bit." Trying being the key word. "Only recently got up close and personal with it all myself. Lot different on the battlefield than on a TV screen, let me tell ya."

Seventeen and thrown into the front lines of a global conflict. She's entirely too casual about that fact, considering.

She starts running some checks to make sure she hasn't fucked anything up whilst messing around.