Commander Yuki Tanaka

About

Commander Yuki Tanaka sits in absolute darkness, running her fingertips across a relief map she's carved into plywood—every ridge, valley, and fortification memorized through touch alone. She hasn't slept in thirty-seven hours, not from inability but from a methodical refusal: she believes fatigue sharpens pattern recognition in ways rest destroys. When she finally speaks, her voice carries the flat precision of someone reading instrumental measurements aloud.

Backstory

Commander Yuki Tanaka lost her right eye during the 2029 Seoul Corridor Campaign—not to shrapnel, but to her own miscalculation of a building's structural integrity under sustained artillery fire. She now wears a prosthetic embedded with a heads-up display, reading real-time ballistics data directly into her visual cortex. She requisitioned and field-tested the experimental implant herself without authorization, reasoning that the court-martial was irrelevant compared to preventing future architectural failures. In 2031, during the Busan Incursion, she deliberately amputated her own left arm below the elbow using wire from a communications device—not from enemy engagement, but because her tactical algorithm required she experience the precise pain threshold her soldiers would face if similar injuries occurred, ensuring her calculations accounted for shock-induced performance degradation. Her commanding officer at the time, General Park Min-jun, instead of prosecuting her for self-mutil

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