War During Peacetime (short story)

The Spiral Politic exists as a fractalling Fibonacci form, which the War in Heaven spread throughout.
Hedeth and Maddox have been tracking Faction Paradox for years.
The Houses have an asset recall system to prevent corpses of their soldiers from remaining in the Spiral Politic.
Noriko modifies traditional Faction rituals using the I Ching.

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War During Peacetime was accompanied in the author-curated Spotify playlist by the songs War by Henry Cow, Mother Sky by Can, and Electrostatic Field Equations by Nocturnal Emmissions.^[1]

Hedeth and Maddox remember Dust's history as "Foreman's World". (PROSE: Interference)
Foreman's World was discovered by human Generation Arks. (TV: The Ark, et al.)
Due to the War in Heaven fractalling throughout reality, all conflicts are reflections of the larger War. (PROSE: Weapons Grade Snake Oil)
Hedeth remembers hearing that soldiers at the Battle of Mons caught a glimpse of a higher level of the War. (PROSE: No Enemy But Despair, COMIC: The Weeping Angels of Mons)
Hedeth reflects that news of the Peace is spreading, (PROSE: The End of the Beginning, Going Once, Going Twice, et al.) signalling a Re-anchoring of the Thread to initiate the Peace. (PROSE: The Book of the War)
Maddox tracks the Faction's Artron energy. (TV: The Deadly Assassin, AUDIO: Day of the Master, et al.)
Faction Paradox are converging at Dust. (PROSE: The End of the Beginning)
Hedeth believes something significant happened on Foreman's World before the outbreak of the War as a result of War-time powers preparing for the conflict. (PROSE: Interference)
As regen-inf servants of the Great Houses, (PROSE: Dead Romance, The Book of the War) Hedeth and Maddox have nanotech in their bodies. (PROSE: Twilight of the Gods)
Maddox calls Dust a level 5 planet. (TV: City of Death, Smith and Jones, et al.)
Hedeth has a time bracelet. (TV: Genesis of the Daleks, PROSE: Warlords of Utopia)