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Threadmarks: Updated Chapter Ten. Thank you to Drakensis for catching things I should have
Chapter Ten
2998 - The Enemy Learns
Quarter One - The Cost of Cheap Raids
The Internal Security Force did not call it a failure.
That was the first lie.
They did not call it a defeat either, though several officers in the room understood that refusing a word did not change the salvage report...
thank you I thought I missed something when I was writing. I will pull and fix it and repost. Thank you for catching that. I really need to find a beta reader
Quarter One — Factories and Field Lessons
The first workday of 2997 did not begin with a speech.
That was how Administrator Gwennan Hart knew the year had started properly.
Speeches were for days when people wanted to pretend the future had arrived clean, polished, and willing to stand still...
Chapter Eight
2996 - The Industrial Outbreak
Opening - The First Step
The first construction IndustrialMech walked badly.
That was the opinion of three reporters, two visiting councilors, and one junior minister who had expected history to have better balance.
The workers disagreed.
To...
well the Mercury that the clans based the Omnimech on was itself based off the quick change tools of the Jabberwocky so David just happen to notice quick change components may help it will be decades before anything happens but yes the seed itself is planted
Chapter Seven
2995 — The Factory Floor Wakes
Opening — The Loaded Floor
In 2995, the rebuild stopped being something people could only read about in reports.
It had walls now.
It had shift whistles, safety boards, clinic schedules, school work-study forms, payroll disputes, food contracts...
Alright I edited it and reinserted the scene that I originally had for this setting I am hoping it meets your high Standards as I have read several of your works
Chapter Six
2994 - The Year the Roots Pulled Back
January - Needs of Our Own
The January Gathering felt different before anyone said why. Old families rarely changed by proclamation. They changed by who crossed a room without being forced to. They changed by which insult no longer found...
Chapter Five
2993 - Momentum
Chapter Five
2993 - Momentum
Opening - The Realm Begins to Move
2993 did not begin with a proclamation.
That was good.
The Federated Suns had endured enough proclamations to know how little weight they carried when a DropShip did not arrive, a school stayed...
Chapter Four
2992 - Institutions Take RootOpening - Roots Are Demanding Things
2992 began without the clean satisfaction of a new idea.
That disappointed several people at court. New ideas were easier to love than old obligations. A proposal could be admired from a comfortable chair. A...