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The Grand Machine had arrived. It interrupted the careful flow of plan to plan; like a bullet through a window, it shattered scheme and plot. Were the Gods' powers so great that they defied not only restrictions on physical size, but odds too? That they had anticipated Publius' presence here...

Publius merely scowled. "Defeatism is an indulgence I can ill afford. And you are no good to me dead," he told the royal. The bald revolutionary tilted his head in the Ptahran's direction. Hekari. She had the symmetrical beauty common to such types, but various drugs and treatments had long...

NOW - SHU. Publius and his entourage had disembarked from an orbital corsair in a cloaked shuttle, piercing the atmosphere of darkened Shu like a plummeting stone. The craft deployed its engines only when it was safe to do so, to avoid orbital tracking, or a stray unguided rocket. Accessing Shu...

BEFORE - CYGNUS XI. "Sharper than any razor. Behold the GRID - see how it renders them equal in death, as they are equal before law!" Soren announced the execution of the noble before a vast crowd. The gray atmos of Cygnus XI was suffocating. Bato stood on a podium the revolutionaries had...

"PUBLIUS - born Dormin Γ-93 (pronounced "Gamma-Nine-Three") - is, in my view, the most complete human of our time. Not inasmuch as he possesses a stronger form, or an extended lifespan, or immunity to disease; no, he is fairly regularly constituted, as humans go, rejecting cybernetic...