We All Died At Breakaway Station
Before "Babylon 5" and the Borg , and before "Alien" there was Richard C. Merediths' story of interstellar war "We All Died at Breakaway Station".
Our protaganist is a man who has seen it all, including death too many times over. This man is a cyborg, brought back to life out of Earth's sheer desperation for experienced officers to pilot the immense starships created to defend the "Salient", Earth's stellar colonial perimeter, from the cold and ruthles...