My supposed space opera romance is not starting in space. I hope to redeem myself with epic interstellar battles later on.
But this really is something of a triumph — I've resolved not to indulge in any flashbacks this time around (one of my writerly sins). Otherwise, the first sentence would be about the epic space battle, and then I'd backtrack to explain why you should care. It's actually rewarding to build out the characters' backgrounds first, instead of figuring it out from their later predicament.
(Lest you think I'm giving up my non-linear ways entirely, I did go ahead and write the ending scene already. It's nice, sometimes, for one's plotline not to be sailing into an unknown frontier.)
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