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When 2,000 years passed between the overture and the final bows, the exact shape of the play becomes helpfully obscured to anybody but the director. A system of control and surveillance so comprehensive, so effective, so far-reaching, that it cloaked itself in its total obviousness. I've been sent to Palisade to bring this planet on-cycle.”
Adagio in G, or Adagio for short, is the codename for the Bilateral Intelligence Service's far-reaching plan to bring Palisade on cycle.
The Adagio is widely recognized in the BIS as an audacious plan, and not everybody feels confident in it. Regardless, they are giving it a shot.[1]
History
Adagio in G was announced by Riah Connadine in "Today Is a Monday". Violet Cove attempted to counter the plan by indoctrinating the BIS spy Marlon Styx into the teachings of the Dim Liturgy, but this attempt ultimately did not work.[1]
The Tide of Embarkation festival on the Isle of the Broken Key is also part of the Adagio in G; it's facilitated in part by BIS spies in Violet Cove. Despite the conflict that takes place during festival preparations,[note 1] the festival continues and fulfills its role in the Adagio.[2]
Trivia
- The Adagio is the reason that many of the PALISADE episode intros involve rhyme and rhythm. Characters who narrate intros that do not rhyme are those who exist outside of the Adagio's influence.[3]
Footnotes
- ↑ See Upon Our Grace arc.