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John Scalzi
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February 3 - March 4, 2025
Haha
Count of Claremont, on End?”
He knows more about what’s coming next than anyone else.
“Well?” Cardenia said, finally. “What is it?”
The collapsing Empire. Haha.
A clever way to explain the astronomical context without indulging in pure exposition.
Marce Claremont
The University of Opole,
now even the far provinces had sprouted rebels, and the violence that came with revolution.
Haha
of these more than five thousand star systems, only forty-seven of them have humans in them.”
‘tenners,’
We can only travel to the systems where the Flow is nearby.”
“Hub is the one place in the Interdependency where all the Flow streams converge—
Humans on Hub have to live under the ground to survive.”
the Morobe system,
here we live in space habitats,
Lagrange points,
A real thing, but not really applicable here. Just a cool name.
There’s only one place in the Interdependency where humans live on the surface of the planet.”
“That’s us. That’s End.”
“Earth
the Earth isn’t part of the Interdependency. We lost contact
“Bint!”
Dalasýsla.
The Flow stream to Dalasýsla was apparently already collapsing when it was first colonized,
Marce was happy this fellow hadn’t noticed he didn’t actually answer the question.
I.e., can it happen again? Because the answer is YES. The question is when.
Vrenna Claremont,
Haha
“A count’s son, worried about rent,” Vrenna said.
the house has a watch set on it by the Imperial Marines.
That makes it the safest place on the surface of the planet right now.”
Haha
Opole.
these newly independent cars were messing things up for everyone else.
Haha people out of practice driving. .
the Warta,
Claremont Palace,
There had been a previous count, whom Marce had never met,
Better to be a functionary at court than a noble on a planet of exile.
Haha that’s cats for you.
Jamies, Count Claremont,
the prediction model.”
Tell Me Another One
Officially Count Claremont’s role for the empire was chief imperial auditor for End.
his friend, the Emperox Attavio VI, had sent him.
the Flow streams that defined the Interdependency did not benefit from “robustness through resonance”—
the collapse of the Flow streams to Earth and Dalasýsla were precursors, rather than the exceptions
a collapse could happen within the century.
Haha
“The collapsing empire,”
Kiva Lagos
Sivouren Donher.
