It’s not the world Shai asked for, it’s the one she got. Her universe is one filled with fallen empires, implacable war machines, lost civilizations, hostile xenos, the occasional ancient unspeakable horror, and she’s going to bring the ruckus to every corner of it.
“Dad says that when Hesperides Colony felt all them millions of her children get murdered, she went mad with grief. Tore herself open in her pain. He likes to wax poetical sometimes.
Now, the Townie Archivists, they don’t wax poetical so much. They say that one of the asteroids the enemy dropped made a big caldera bust loose with an eruption so awful it brung on the Long Night, a volcanic winter that lasted for years and years.
I figure maybe they're both right. It doesn't matter much anyway.
We're gonna storm heaven and take back our sky. Take back our place in the stars.” - Shaifennen Roehe, New Vermont Prefecture, Hesperides Colony, Year 1332, Terran Empire Reckoning.
The Long Night is just beginning. Check out Serial #2 here!
yay! I am glad it is only a week long wait.