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Save:In a universe where math and weapons depend on the calendars and rituals observed by people, a math genius captain proposes a wild strategy to recapture a heretic fortress, and ends up inhabited by the ghost of a disgraced general. The rituals include torture, though it's never seen or described in any detail, and there's a lot of emphasis on protocol and different castes, as well as on the exotic effects of exotic calendrical weapons like the amputation gun. The story follows Captain Kel Cheris who is disgraced and given the chance to redeem herself by hosting the mind of a long-dead tactician, Shuos Jedao. Together, they form a new alliance that will change things in a universe where technology itself depends on belief.
AT KEL ACADEMY, an instructor had explained to Cheris’s class that the threshold winnower was a weapon of last resort, and not just for its notorious connotations. Said instructor had once witnessed a...
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