War During Peacetime (short story)

War During Peacetime
Main character(s):	Hedeth, Aliyya
Featuring:	Faction Paradox
Main setting:	Dust, the Armistice
Key crew
Writer:	Greg Maughan
Release details
Part of:	The Book of the Peace
Release date:	23 December 2018
Faction Paradox
← Previous	And To Dust We Shall Return
Next →	The End of the Beginning

War During Peacetime was the seventh story in The Book of the Peace.

Summary

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Characters

• Hedeth
• Maddox
• Aliyya
• Little Brother Taran
• Cousin Noriko

Worldbuilding

• 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.

Notes

• 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.

Continuity

• 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)