Thank you. (And I don't miss the hugs one bit... )
I'll hold off on re-writing that contribution until after you post. I'll just jot a couple of notes here so I don't forget, and so you can tell me whether this would step on your toes: Noah discovers Tellus' Freedom station is commanded by the analogue of his long-dead sister when she takes part in an interview mentioning she'd noticed an Artemis satellite - both Earths are aware of each other at some level. While discussing what to do about this revelation, Skuld shows up to do what she was going to do anyway: scout the area and try to figure out what the HFIL's going on. (The Fenspace reality seems to be a weirdness nexus - this is the third alternate spun off it so far. The data in the WFC plus the Roughriders' research makes it a near-certainty Fenspace is going to spread that weirdness to other realities sooner or later - probably sooner, knowing Ben Rhodes. Better to get a handle on what's happening before the mess is dropped in the laps of civilizations that aren't expecting it.) And maybe - maybe - she'll grant one wish - just one, not five - to one character yet to be determined but definitely not a major "PC level" character, before anyone in Fenspace knows what's going on.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
I'll hold off on re-writing that contribution until after you post. I'll just jot a couple of notes here so I don't forget, and so you can tell me whether this would step on your toes: Noah discovers Tellus' Freedom station is commanded by the analogue of his long-dead sister when she takes part in an interview mentioning she'd noticed an Artemis satellite - both Earths are aware of each other at some level. While discussing what to do about this revelation, Skuld shows up to do what she was going to do anyway: scout the area and try to figure out what the HFIL's going on. (The Fenspace reality seems to be a weirdness nexus - this is the third alternate spun off it so far. The data in the WFC plus the Roughriders' research makes it a near-certainty Fenspace is going to spread that weirdness to other realities sooner or later - probably sooner, knowing Ben Rhodes. Better to get a handle on what's happening before the mess is dropped in the laps of civilizations that aren't expecting it.) And maybe - maybe - she'll grant one wish - just one, not five - to one character yet to be determined but definitely not a major "PC level" character, before anyone in Fenspace knows what's going on.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012