Three separate stories running through the same world. SEPSIS and SPLINT are the last veteran pilots of the Synthetic Wars, heading back to the scorched battlefield to retrieve the fallen unit of a comrade and perhaps recover the land that was once theirs. REBEL is a traveler who wakes in an unfamiliar town with a headache, a letter, and a mechanical augmentation implanted in their skull with no memory of consenting to it, who befriends the local monster population while trying to understand what was done to them and why. BARRETT is a war veteran who would very much like to be done fighting, whose retirement is interrupted when enemy forces begin reactivating their operations in the desert she thought she had pacified.