I really liked this one, even if the very lightly touched on raison d’etre of the characters was very liberal. It really captures the End of History™ almost perfectly, a war purposefully sustained indefinitely which no one of the yankkk-coded pilots cares to question since they’re too busy enjoying dogfighting

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even when it is revealed that they themselves were created to wage war and will be replaced by clones who will do the same exact job