![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Nine Hibiscus didn’t need to watch the cartograph again to remember how the displayed planet-points had winked first distress-red and then out-of-communication black, vanishing like they were being swallowed by a tide. Without its pinpoint stargleams and Fleet-movement arcs inscribed in light, the strategy table on the bridge of Weight for the Wheel was a flat black expanse, dull-matte, as impatient as its captain for new information. NINE Hibiscus watched the cartograph cycle through its last week of recorded developments for a third time, and then switched it off. the private notes of Her Brilliance the Emperor Nineteen Adze, undated, locked, and encrypted ![]() Your Brilliance, you have left me with all the world, and yet I am bereft I’d take your star-cursed possessing ghost, Six Direction, if only he would teach me how not to sleep. priority message deployed on diplomatic, commercial, and universal frequencies in the Bardzravand Sector, 52nd day, 1st year, in the 1st indiction of the Emperor of All Teixcalaan Nineteen Adze … INTERDICT SUSPENDED-for a duration of four months, extensible by Council order, the interdict regarding Teixcalaanli military transport through Stationer space is suspended all ships bearing Teixcalaanli military callsign are permitted to pass through the Anhamemat Gate-this suspension does not authorize Teixcalaanli ships, military or otherwise, to dock at Lsel Station without prior visas, approvals, and customs clearances-SUSPENSION AUTHORIZED BY THE COUNCILOR FOR THE MINERS (DARJ TARATS)-message repeats … ![]()
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