When the Carpathian War got heated up after three years, the Western Empire had to ship home thousands of bodies each week. They sent them in big, spacious caskets wrapped tightly with the Empire’s heavy flag. They came back in military transports, and then fanned out on dozens of commercial planes to get back to their aggrieved loved ones and the old plots of earth they’d felt with their own feet.
During one of these exercises, a transport carrying five of the dead had an engine blowout. The shrapnel carved out a large part of one of the lateral cargo doors. As the plane tipped to its side, its most precious cargo poured out. Five bedecked caskets tumbling in the clean Western Empire air. They came down on two houses in a subdivision.
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