Martian veterans had twice the suicide rate of Earth’s warfare survivors, and Alice understood why. There were no post-trauma aversion techniques that could overcome the knowledge they had destroyed mankind’s last hope of a new start. Night after night, she awoke covered in sweat, shivering, the shreds of nightmares pulling at her. The dreams made her sick, forced to rewatch the virginal forests burn, the tunnel collapse, the bodies ( children ) in a circle.