Duty Over Ambition

Eiran Shepard has spent her entire life seeking the approval of her parents. With her mother often deployed and her father heavily involved in politics, their careers have come at the cost of neglecting their daughter. As a spacer, Eiran dreams of escaping Arcturus Station to join the Alliance Marines, despite her parent’s attempts to dissuade her from following them in their footsteps.On her eighteenth birthday, Eiran secretly heads to the recruitment office to enlist. However, she soon finds herself caught in the crossfire of a terrorist attack targeting Arcturus Station, threatening the lives of every person onboard, civilian and military. With lives on the line, Eiran discovers the true meaning of her family motto, realizing that duty must come before ambition. She sacrifices her selfish desire to escape her life in order to protect others, even if it means revealing her unregistered biotic abilities in the process.Caught in the terrorists' plot, Eiran becomes the key to stopping the saboteurs and saving everyone on Arcturus Station. Despite the risk of losing herself to bloodlust and vengeance, she ends up discovering a deeper part of her identity, and what it means to be a soldier.