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Human beings, while technically "free," mostly skulk around the fringes of the Satrapy, struggling to get by.
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Here's the blurb from the book: The Benevolent Satrapy rule an empire of forty-eight worlds, linked by thousands of wormholes strung throughout the galaxy.
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Humanity, which is technologically and geographically repressed by the supposedly benevolent Satrapy, has suddenly become marked for extinction.
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As I saw it, it's broken up into three acts: (1) Nashara's escape from the Hongguo, humanity's interface to the Satrapy that rules over the 48 planets and controls the wormholes between them; (2) The return of the Teotl to Nanagada; and (3) The fight to smack down the Satrapy.
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The action on Nanagada happens very quickly, then we're back in space again, trying to get the Ragamuffins to band together to face the threat from the Satrapy.
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Also, taking a wider view of the setting allows Buckell to expand on events alluded to in Crystal Rain (the destruction of the wormholes leading to human worlds) and also what the role of humanity happens to be in the Satrapy.
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That would bring the Satrapy down on them quickly.
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The Satrapy, the Hongguo, Gahe, the League of Human Affairs, Azteca, Teotl, Ragamuffins - some plot elements were difficult to follow, mostly because there were just too many factions.
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Meanwhile, back on Nanagada, John DeBrun and his friend Pepper face the return of the vicious Teotl, only to learn that they are also in the crosshairs of the Satrapy.
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Natasha and Pepper both were the stars of the book, maybe because their motivations were clear: Natasha driven to get the word out about the Satrapy threat of genocide; Pepper driven to finally, after hundreds of years, leave Nanagada by re-opening the closed wormhole.
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