PALISADE 56: Some New Thing Found in the Light, Or: A Year in Nine Parts

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It happened without much fanfare: They'd scattered—like the so-called shards of Divinity itself—all across the Milky Way. Searching. Fleeing. Exploring. Building. Fighting. A year apart. Not their year apart, because there was no "them" anymore, not by affinity or proximity, not through collaboration or communication, not in duty, not in friendship.
And around them, the Divine Principality seemed to be slowly splintering too. Worlds detached from each other. Families separated not by war but by silence. New claimants to old thrones. Civil wars at small scales, intimate scales.
This week on PALISADE: Some New Thing Found in the Light, Or: A Year in Nine Parts
I don't need rescue / But it helps when you drift through^{[Note 1]}
Dramatis Personae
Barnacle (Austin Walker) … … … ... ... ... ... ... ... ... A spymaster
Cas’alear Rizah (Austin Walker) … … … ... ... ... ... ... ... ... An exiled heir
Coriolis Sunset (Sylvi Clare) ... … … … ... ... ... ... An anguished pilot on the run
Exeter Leap (Keith Carberry) … … … ... ... ... ... A pirate captain in leisure
Gallica, Elect of Present (Austin Walker) … … … ... ... ... ... ... ... ... A powerful bon vivant
Jorrie Bluebrick (Austin Walker) … … … ... ... ... ... ... ... ... An ambitious recruit
Kalvin Brnine (Ali Acampora) … … ... ... ... ... A crestfallen commander
Levitation Cascabel-Gardner (Andrew Lee Swan) … A renowned hero
Resolute Welkin (Austin Walker) … … … ... ... ... ... ... ... ... A scout
Riah Connadine (Jack de Quidt) ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... A master spymaster
Rye, Elect of Space (Austin Walker) … … … ... ... ... ... ... ... ... A brilliant negotiator
Svir (Austin Walker) … … … ... ... ... ... ... ... ... A pilgrim
Thisbe (Janine Hawkins) ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... A traveler in search of Divinity
Xylem (Austin Walker) … … … ... ... ... ... ... ... ... A researcher far from home

Wakeful (Austin Walker) … … … ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Emergence Itself

It happened without much fanfare. They'd scattered—like the so-called shards of Divinity itself—all across the Milky Way. Searching. Fleeing. Exploring. Building. Fighting. A year apart. Not their year apart, because there was no "them" anymore, not by affinity or proximity, not through collaboration or communication, not in duty, not even in friendship.

And around them, the Divine Principality seemed to be slowly splintering too. Worlds detached from one another. Families separated not by war but by silence. New claimants to old thrones. Civil wars at small scales, intimate scales.

A year apart. A year in nine parts.”