Note: This is not one of my regularly scheduled stories. It is a monthly voted story on my patreon, so under normal circumstances, it will get 1 chapter a month if it keeps getting voted on. However, I've also been posting chapters whenever I miss a Psychoprotective update, so now y'all will get to see something when that happens.

Tanya didn't actually want to become a soldier. But as an orphan in the militaristic Empire, they had no choice in the matter. The only question was, now or later?They enjoyed wargames, and their historical knowledge plus wargaming/FPS experience should be... at least a little useful? It would be nice if war fit those wargames better, but they aren't so arrogant as to assume it is.But with their life spirited away in a fulfillment of their idle wish, Tanya must learn how to conduct war in a very different place, one where wars are indeed conducted with turns, where combat skill is reduced to numbers... and where free will is more questionable than ever.Can Tanya thrive in this war-obsessed world? Can they return to the Empire? Do they want to?