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Aaron Sheridan doesn't want to live anymore. His After his entire family is dead by his own hand, killed in a shuttle crash. Unable to deal with the guilt, one that he signs up for was piloting no less, Aaron Sheridan enlists in the Martian Fleet , fully expecting a fatal deployment to die in the ongoing Rim War. Instead, but instead ends he winds up at their most prestigious on Corinth Station, the Fleet's command school, Corinth Station. InitiallyAt first, he's detached from is apathetic towards the brutality of his instructors and the Machiavellian tactics scheming of the other students thereand staff, but after he sticks standing up for his only friend , he makes himself becomes a target of for the dreaded Caelus Erik, the most feared cadet on the station, Caelus ErikCorinth. Unsure of whom to trust and worried Scared that anything he does any further actions will make put others on his flight team targets as wellat risk, Aaron retreats deeper and deeper inside shuts himselfoff from everyone. HoweverBut, when he discovers that officer the staff on Corinth have a motive other than training is not the station's only purposeofficers, it becomes increasingly clear he begins to realise that risking everything is his all might be the safest thing he can do...

The setting is very well thought out. Humanity has spread out across the galaxy, forming the Confederation, a military and economic alliance that is currently fighting against a parasitic alien race known as the Verex. As you can probably infer from the title, Mars has been successfully terraformed, while Earth is implied to be undergoing severe desertification. The Martian government uses what is known as Mylan Chips, small devices which have the ability to read the thoughts of the person they are implanted in and transmit them back to the government if they show any signs of innovation. However, interference from the nebula that Corinth Station is located in prevents the chips from working. There is definitely something sinister going on in Corinth, given the sheer negligence displayed by the command staff (students do get severely injured and die fairly frequently, and the higher-ups barely raise an eyebrow at it), as well as the large number of top scientists stationed there.