If she’d learned anything in the centuries since working with Verdance, it was that converting these speculative buyers into engaged residents meant keeping them inside the Emerald cities. That’s why Emerald provided its own local urban transit, with options for every income level—owners didn’t need to mingle with the crowds of mounts, Blessed, and H. diversus workers built so cheaply that they couldn’t withstand the radiation from a single trip through space. If Emerald brought intercity transit to its metro areas, potential clients might wander off and spend money in the Bronze Islands or La
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