The 144TH

The 144TH: Burden Of The Broken

War did not end when the worlds burned. It left survivors.

Commander Nick and the 144th were built to do one thing: fight the impossible and keep standing. In the ruins of a Scrapper assault that should have killed everyone, one name refuses to leave Nick's mind: Laura, the girl he failed to save. While civilians rebuild under the shadow of gods and machine swarms, Nick turns his entire command into a search pattern, hunting for a single missing life across a war that spans dimensions.

Allies are scarce and fragile. To track Laura, Nick is forced into a working truce with Hasily, the chaotic architect of the Scrappers, even as the elegant killers of the Maid Core close in and Rachel's quiet manipulations tighten around his people. Laura herself is changing, rebuilt with stolen metal and enemy tech, caught between the child she was and the weapon others want her to become.

As fractures spread through the 144th and old loyalties clash with new orders, one question drives them toward the next battlefield: how much of yourself can you lose and still be worth saving?