After her stunning success with her first mission, Tanya is assigned to test a new piece of technology: a highly unstable prototype calculation jewel.  This jewel offers her unparalleled power, but just using it risks her life.  Tanya is determined to get out of this project and on to someplace easier and safer (like the front lines of the war), but Being X has other ideas...
Even if the Empire is a meritocracy,
،حتى لو كانت الإمبراطورية جديروقراطية
Auch wenn das Imperium
eine Meritokratie ist,
¡Si el imperio se rige 
por la meritocracia,
Aunque el imperio 
sea una meritocracia,
L’Empire prône la méritocratie,
D'accordo che l'Impero
usa un sistema meritocratico...
Tudo bem que o Império
 é uma meritocracia,
Пусть в Райхе и ценят гениев,