[Coldsaturn]

Yeah, the outer conflict in this section can feel pretty thin. You have to buy into the fact that the Fleet is not only part of the military, but also the ones who run things in Skyhaven.

- "believing you revealed the Fleet's secrets during your mission, you (??) put your family under house arrest. they died as a result."
The man is obviously paranoid. You have the man on one side saying that the Fleet basically brainwashed him and in order to save his family from the same fate, he tried to keep them away from the Fleet's influence by closing them up. Caleb is giving a complete different narration: the man went mad because of the deepspace tunnel and he killed his family himself.

- Caleb just created a black hole?
I LOOOOOVE that they use some of the LIs' evols to their full extent. The man controls gravity, why shouldn't he be able to create a little black hole?

- how the fuck did Caleb just single me out of the crowd like that?
I mean. He could have recognized her outright.

- "they know i disappeared into the zone"
This created a meme for players reaching this point of the plot.
"Our intel suggests you were in the N109 zone"
/flashback to Sylus pinning her on his bed when she was stealing his brooch
"Wrong. The N109 zone was in me"

- The hug is so good in the chinese version too! MC's VA sounded amazing there.

- why the hell didn't he contact us once he recovered and how did he end up in the Fleet and promoted to the position he has now in so short a relative time?
Well, if you push aside all the very legitimate reasons he couldn't contact us and was absolutely committed to not do that every again in his life, there's also the fact that now that he's part of the Fleet he could really die at any moment during his missions. So it would be extremely cruel to make MC go through grief only to come back and then die for realses later on.

- i am written as an emotional marshmellow a lot of the time, aren't i?
Her inability to press for answers is possibly the most immersion-breaking part of the game. I can literally feel the writers breathing down my neck like "we have to make this plot last at least other 2 years"
My personal headcanon is that she can't deal with overly dramatic men and just decides she doesn't get paid enough for that.

The chapters do get progressively longer, yeah. Death and Rebirth is like 5 hours.

I hope you checked the translations on youtube, they even put comments when they say things that have a double meaning, it's very thorough. And Caleb in its original and pure form is truly something magical. I'm fond of eng Caleb but the original script hits a dramatic amount of favorite tropes I have in fiction.