Character: Jessica Lang
Admiral Jessica Lang commands an Empire warship and the power to end worlds, and she uses it. Coldly brilliant and certain of the order she enforces, she is also the story’s conscience-in-waiting — a woman who has faced down planetary defenses without flinching, yet finds herself undone by tenderness she didn’t expect to feel.
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Peacekeeper: To What End Peace
Admiral Jessica Lang has given her life to the Empire. She commands warships, enforces Imperial order, and never questions the system that made her who she is — because she has no reason to. Everything she believes about herself, her loyalty, her purpose, was built by design. When cracks begin to appear in the foundation of her identity, Jessica is forced to confront a terrifying possibility: that her entire sense of self was manufactured, her devotion engineered, and the Empire she serves is nothing like what it pretends to be. Each layer she peels back reveals something worse beneath it, and the deeper she digs, the more dangerous she becomes to the people who built her. In a civilization sustained by control and obedience, Jessica's awakening isn't just a personal crisis — it's a threat to everything the Empire has constructed. The question isn't whether she can break free. It's what's left of her when she does.