Hello everyone! I checked today's contest... and it's no good. I won't be able to participate in it due to the nature of my story, so I'm waiting another week for better luck. I'm still writing the story as we speak, and I promise that it'll be good. The first volume particularly is going to be a military sci-fi.

To thank everyone who's reading this, here's the synopsis of my upcoming story, "Commanding Stars."

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Current Era, 2603.

It's been half a millennium since World War III. Five whole centuries since the world united under a single government for the first time. In this day and age, countless people populate the Milky Way, belonging to one of two governments: the Dominion of Earth and the Republic of Humanum.

Marcus Aurelius Evenrise is the heir apparent to his father, one of the five Grand Dukes of the Dominion of Earth. All it would take is a few more years, and he'd have the power to live his life the way he wanted, free from his father's commands. Unfortunately, he wouldn't get those few years. His twin sister, Cornelia, has succeeded in convincing their father to make a test to determine which of them would become the next Grand Duke: they would get sent off world to command space warships.

For the painfully average Marcus, this would be a nearly insurmountable obstacle. And yet, he isn't quite ready to give up. He has to become the next Grand Duke. He has to.