BEC: The Shanghaied Serviteur

In a civilization of trillions, your name is erased. Your memory is a weapon. Your only crime was having a soul.Registrant 7-009-A4. To the crushing bureaucracy of the United Human Dominion, that is your entire identity. You are a 'serviteur'—a bio-engineered cog in an eternal war against the Ketrassii. You are programmed for lethality, processed for obedience, and identified only as Bec.In a galaxy of artificial light and manufactured grey, Bec’s only asset is a gift the Machine could not eliminate: an absolute, photographic muscle memory. His internal 'library' holds the blueprints for lethal combat, but also forbidden echoes: a simple irrigation valve sequence, the quiet beauty of a white farmhouse on Farm Seven, and the fading face of Anna Breckner.While the Dominion Armed Services attempts to load him like a weapon, Bec secretly hoards these unsanctioned memories, building a private sanctuary the system cannot touch.Surrounded by an endless army of identical processed soldiers and commanding officers who speak a dialect designed for institutional control, Bec must navigate the arithmetic of grief. When an encounter with a young enemy conscript mirrors his own stolen past, Bec is forced to make a choice. Can a single cog retain its humanity, or will the Machine process him into silent dust?BEC or The Shanghaied Serviteur is a poignant, linguistically immersive work of military science fiction and a classic space opera. A story where survival is the only unauthorized victory, and the persistent memory of a life left behind becomes the ultimate act of defiance.Purchase now and join the rebellion of the mind. Read more