Bureaucracy… It was among the most necessary functions of any civilization. A boon that gifted civility in the grim darkness of the universe.
And at the flip of a coin, a cancer so all consuming it would destroy everything in its path if one did not have the will to control it.
The Union of Columbia was in the latter category long before the first snow fell. And if there was one good thing about an apocalyptic situation, it had the exceptional ability to thin the herd of its weakest members without mankind itself bearing the sins of doing so.
Colonel Nathaniel Cross had found that despite the fact that the Army had lost the majority of its personnel, heavy weaponry, and leadership. It as a unit of function had never been more efficient.
