[story][Fenspace Alternates] The South Is Rising, Someone Get A Hammer

[Black Aeronaut]

Instead, you have the British filling that role. Possibly the French, too. Gah.

Well, there's going to be disgruntled parties anyways. And the reaction is going to be a grand "WTF!?" from the danes in general - after all, they never had anything in orbit, period, and we're gonna come swooping down out of nowhere. They're gonna have no reference to go by except for whatever sensational pulps someone may have read. This is going to be troublesome to deal with. As they have no freaking clue as to how to deal with us it will make them unpredictable.

We will be worshiped. We will be reviled. We will be respected. We will be held in contempt.

They will think of us as ursurpers of Heaven. They will think of us as the Masters of the Stars.

But in the end, they shall know us as Fen.