Technology
The Sleepers
Ledger Wars exo-frames left standing in Mire's water, moss-covered, herons nesting in their hatches. Frames that learned their pilots so well the pilot became optional, they still wake for no reason anyone can give and wade across the bayou with nobody aboard: made war machines, self-aware and unemployed.
Lanes
Connected entries
native toMireThe bayou that swallowed a war: a Ledger Wars jungle front left behind when the money moved on, sunk under black swamp water among huge moss-hung trees, lily pads, mist and fireflies.- kin ofMade peopleThe Drift's broad class of self-aware beings built on purpose: clones, constructs, symbiont hosts, tank-raised listeners, and other living weapons left behind by the war.
left byMire front abandonedWhen the Ledger Wars money moved on, Mire's jungle front was simply left: transports stopped coming, the frames were never recovered, and over the years the swamp rose over the trenches…- links hereHollis CraneMire's keeper and the oldest Lamplighter: an old fisherman on the stilt shack's porch, once a Relay Corps signals man posted to the front, who stayed when the war moved on.
- links hereMire's markThe stilt shack's own mark: the burn-in as Mire carries it. The black flame stands on the flood line with its reflection broken by ripples, and two Sleeper eye-lamps glow low in the water…
- links hereThe PicketsThe Mire front's unmanned sentry drones, still flying their patrol circuits over the channels decades after the war left: lean armoured wings in scorched olive paint, one amber optic…
On the timeline
When it happened
- War's end
The money moves on. Mire's jungle front is left to sink into the swamp with its exo-frames still standing, and in Sunder's orbit the dreadnoughts lose station-keeping and begin to fall.
- War's end