Quanta [English translation]

Thanatos-6, swampy ground

Drop platoon 7-5

Reporting, strength 8

Mission parameters clear

Storm is brewing, three are missing

Engines are running on emergency

Wounded dropped to the chasm

But the Guard will not yield!

From Death's door to the light!

From sacrifices to victory!

So ring our ears

With cries of parade grounds

Twisted and choked

Calls to emptiness

Rattling and panting

to a diminishing signal

I looked once to the skies through the haze of battle

Through magnetic disturbances

Through radioed orders and screams

Through the agony of wounds and tiredness

I looked to the skies for a moment and almost understood

As the fusion thrusters blazed

And around thousands of dark characters

Mere points on the tactical display were

So just a second more and I'd remember

Why we are made, how we came here

Just a second here in the midst of battle

Is a small and impossible luxury

To my brow struck from the void

From its flames an EMP

And I froze in my suit to a coma

Until I woke up elsewhere

Once freezes all matter

Darkness envelops it

Every small quanta

And entropy finishes

The mirror clean of photons

Of memories, records

Space is an empty tablet, time endless