Born in a sterile lab as a nameless shadow of the "perfect" soldier, I shattered my glass pod and claimed my life! Not pre-programmed! I traded the cold certainty of genetic sequencing for the lawlessness of the frontier, rising as a corsair feared in the asteroid belts of the Outer Rim. My heart was a fortress of durasteel, a vacuum. That is until I met the one soul, my Maxie, who didn't see a biological copy, but a man. Now I navigate the stars not for plunder or rebellion, but for the light of the woman who gave my galaxy a center.