The space burial served as a pivotal event which affected every Vandal among the Verle Task Force. Like a seed buried amidst the fertilizers of the fallen, a new life sprung into being.
"A new beginning."
Those words echoed throughout everyone's minds. Ves never imagined that Major Verle could be so eloquent. A speechwriter among his staff must have composed those uplifting and inspiring words.
After Ves took a mental step back, he realized the eulogy aimed to invigorate the Vandals. The last thing they needed was people getting hung up about the losses they sustained.
As a soldier of the Republic, they weren't soft-hearted to the extent that the death of a comrade plunged them into despair.
Yet human emotion was a complex beast, and all manner of negative thoughts might bloom in the darkness.
Us contracted authors talked about BaiSiwa the other day. I started writing The Mech Novel when this extremely arrogant and thin-skinned author turned WN upside down with his drama.
I've witnessed such behavior in fanfiction many times. I try my best not to emulate their sense of entitlement as a consequence. I like to let my work do the talking for me, and it is up to readers like you to interpret them however you want.