<blockquote>It isn't until he gets the manifest that Sumner figures out that Atlantis is a suicide mission, that none of them are coming back, not ever.
Markham, caught with a new recruit after six years of loyal service. Anderson, left to regret a vindictive ex who actually overnighted some incriminating photos to his C.O. Bates, whose used to smile too much, until some nosey tech intercepted a private and almost innocent email.
Colonel Marshall Sumner.
They were all in a special category: the group of men who were too good to send home with a discharge, but too queer to really trust anymore, and all of them stuck in a miserable limbo until then.</blockquote>
