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The fifth destroyer is not.

Broken, heat-blind, and drifting through the wreckage of a failed fleet action, K5 should have died with the rest of the squadron. Instead, Captain Brent Duren keeps his ship silent, cold, and hidden among the corpses of warships while enemy drones hunt for anything still breathing.

There are survivors in the debris field. Wounded crew. Trapped specialists. A senior commander who outranks Duren and believes K5’s duty is bigger than survival. Every rescue costs air the ship cannot spare, heat it cannot hide, and time the enemy is using to tighten the net.

Duren has one command left: keep the ship alive long enough to matter.

But the ambush was too precise. The enemy knew human routes, human doctrine, and human authentication codes. Someone led Katana Squadron into a killing field, and K5 may be the only witness left.

To escape, Duren must choose who to save, who to leave behind, and how far a captain can bend orders before survival becomes mutiny.

The war has begun.

The dead are still transmitting.

And the Fifth Destroyer is carrying proof somebody wants buried.