The Meridian Consortium
Few units, expensive, precise, shielded. You win by never taking a bad trade.
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Thirteen years after the Meridian Ring came down, two sides fight over what is left of the sky.
About one fifth of the Ring's mass is still in orbit, broken into thousands of fragments on decaying orbits. Debris keeps falling, from bolts that burn up to habitat modules the size of a city district. Impacts are announced. Fields do not regrow.
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8 · 16 · 24 · 32 · 48 · 64 · 96 · 128. Sections breathe at 96. Content width 1280, gutters 24, page edge 24 (16 on a phone). Line length 60 to 70 characters.
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Few units, expensive, precise, shielded. You win by never taking a bad trade.
Many units, cheap, built from wreckage. A lost unit is replaceable; a lost field is not.
Orbit tracking announces the impact site seconds ahead.
The fragment hits and scorches the ground.
A new field. It does not regrow.
A twenty-minute skirmish against the AI where the debris impact decides who wins. It does. The mechanic stays.
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A tank plated with Ring steel. Short range, very tough, cheap enough to build in numbers.
Seventeen on the night of the Fall. Elected speaker in 2105, the youngest the League has had.
At 02:17 UTC the accelerator array over sector eleven and twelve reported a load excursion. The control hub authorised the shutdown sequence under protocol, after which the neighbouring sections lost positive lift within four minutes. The cause of the initial excursion is known to the maintenance system and was logged at and remains under review.
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