Doctor Merak's struggle to maintain medical ethics under Marshal's oppressive regime as innocent patients suffer

A broadcast of hollow propaganda about strength and eventual victory plays on a screen above a hospital bed in a grim bunker hospital while falling debris shakes the squalid ward. …

The Marshal’s brittle composure shatters when Shapp reports an alarm breach in K block, the high-radiation detention zone where Princess Astra languishes. Ordering an instant lockdown and barring all outside …