Location:Northern territories — Empire farmland to the Northern border
Date/Time:TC1855.01.06-12
The Empire ended gradually and then all at once.
For the first six hours of flight — sky-surfing blades in formation, Raven at point, Bjorn and Freya flanking Aren between them, Jace on the left wing, Mira at the rear — the landscape below was familiar. The outer ring farmland south of the Imperial City: orderly fields, irrigation channels catching winter sunlight, villages connected by roads that the Charter communities had helped maintain. The infrastructure of civilization. The organized world.
