"These were the days when the three Romes had fallen. When the mother of the world had bled, when the Ice Horde had conquered Archangel, when the trees had marched on Muscovy, and when only white-walled Kiev stood against the forest. These were the days when Sasha Witchblood roamed the land, and tread its mud and jewels alike beneath her feet."
--'The Girl and the Gallows'
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It has been nearly two thousand years since Sol was lost to those relentless mechanical foes of unknown origin. Two millennia since a few scattered exosolar colonies of transgenic refugees became the last remnants of what once was the human race. And less than a thousand years since the immortals of Alpha Centauri ventured out from their enclave. Now parahumanity stretches across a sphere of space... [click here for more]