World
From Neterios to 2086
Eleven chapters: how two gods fell out over a planet, what was given away at Kadesh, who is hunting it now, and who is making money on all of it. The map of where this happens is Places.
Origin
Three hundred thousand years ago, two gods of Neterios land on an empty Earth and disagree about what to do with it. They never stop disagreeing.
The primer
Bastet's gift at Kadesh, Vivek's scattering, Acolal in 2086, and the crossing to Heliopoly. Start here.
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The deep past
Bastet and Anubis land at Jebel Irhoud with an army of robots, and Earth's first population is built rather than born.
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The rift
Ra sent them together because they are opposites. She wanted Earth cultivated; he wanted it left wild. Everything else follows.
Read chapter →The gift
1274 BC. A pharaoh is losing a battle, and is handed eighteen cats and two conditions. He keeps one of them.
The present
The eighteen are scattered across the planet. Two sides are looking for them, and only one of them wants to put them back.
The two hunts
The eighteen are scattered. Vivek's seekers race to reunite them; Salugi's takers hunt them to take the Bridges instead.
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The supporting cast
Cao sells Bridge glass to anyone with money, Umbrax and the gangs included. Not a villain — a businessman whose neutrality has consequences.
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Namboo Canopy
One band plays every song in the saga. In-world they are travelling players, and their songs carry news between the islands.
Read chapter →The machinery
Who owns the rockets, who owns the network, who makes the glass, and who is selling it on television at a price that expires while he is talking.
Alset Holdings
One man owns the rocket company and the network everyone argues on. Only one of those is a spacecraft, and it is not the powerful one.
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The Orbit office
Claim a handle, buy a tick, pay for reach. The only part of Alset's network you can walk into — and the floors above the public counter.
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The Solar Power Sphere
Set one on a plot and it runs the block. It is also the power storage time travel needs, and only one factory makes them.
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Heliopoly Value Channel
The city's shopping channel, hosted by the councillor who moves its money. Real merchandise, real prices, expiring while he talks.
Read chapter →The season we're building — written as chapters, films when we have the team. Episodes →