
They say that real men never truly die; that their existences, upon their always-glorious deaths, are transformed into tangible legacies, or ideas that resonate across the universe. Men say these things of heroes on the battlefield, whose bloodied bodies bear testimony and stories, and whose sacrifices have led to victory; men also speak these things of great thinkers unafraid of ridicule and persecution, who pursue the truth and spread it until they themselves become the ideas. Are the millions of crewmen who die every second in service of their respective empires considered under this heroic definition?…
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