Episode description
While Kingdom Come creeps through the dark, the Golden Branch explodes into violence and betrayal. In the peripheries of the sector, the Golden Branch Demarchy, the Hands of Grace, and the Rapid Evening seek to secure the power necessary to survive what's to come. On Counterweight, the Golden Branch's beating heart, Minerva Strategic attempts to undermine its rival, while Ibex's Righteous Vanguard makes its presence known. And in the shadow of September, an unseen threat sails on a sinister vector.
This week on COUNTER/Weight: "A Special Kind of Warmth"
Are you going to just stand still?
Opening
“
30 days ago, on Counterweight.
The room already smelled musty. The automated cleaner units Orth Godlove left behind did an admirable job of keeping the room free of biological contagions, but they did nothing to make it comfortable, let alone pleasing, to be in. But Ibex brings his own aroma wherever he goes, and within the first few steps of his arrival, the memory den took on a refreshing fragrance. The cleaner bots moved aside, lifting up their air scrubbers like trumpets announcing his arrival.
He puts a hand on the old hero’s head. It’s warm, that special kind of warm that means things could move in any direction if pushed just so. Ibex was familiar with that heat. He practiced controlling it, bringing it from balmy to boiling to bring down a state, cooling it from scorching to sapid to ruin an economy. If you wanted to move history, you had to first learn to be comfortable in that mercurial warmth. He glided from one station to another. The press of a button, the flip of a switch, and then a cord pulled from its socket. And there on the bed, Jace Rethal struggles, desperate to feel cool air.”
Plot
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Cast
Characters
- Ibex (intro)
- Jace Rethal (intro and outro)
- Grace
- Vicuna
- Sigilia
- Colleen Steiger
- Crystal Steiger
- Kiva Helsing
- Ariadne
- Fortitude
- Gerenuk
- Rigour
- Diego Rose
- Augustus Foxwell
- Hudson Thorne
- Ibex
- Righteousness
- Addax Dawn (outro)