2018-04-15T17:59:57Z

Epideme:

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*He has never piloted before. But then, he's only been alive for 14 hours. And no others are left to return the spirit.
*''[voot voot]''
**And while he understands the ship's '''controls''', he makes no attempt to understand how the ship '''itself''' works. How it travels beyond light... yet remains matter.
*May its Maker be blessed, it is beyond him.
*He exits the atmosphere and leaps the ship. But like every leap, it is one not only of space, but of faith.*In the imperfect vacuum between systems, the ship intersects an errant piece of ore, not 50mm wide.
*In infinitessimal instants, objects meed in an extraordinary dissection: the ore, a bulkhead. The ore, a display. The ore, a forehead. And so on toward the Ring.
*It's a testament to the ship's Maker that the damage barely ripples out.
*But like its pilot, this is now a dead ship, and it immediately begins to slow.
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==Trivia==
*Date is between 1980 and 2081
*Due to the font in the comic, it is not obvious that a [[The Continuum Of Makers|Maker]] is meant and not a maker in general.
*This is the first appearance of a Maker.
*This is the first appearance of a ship.
*This is the first appearance of the [[Ring Drive]].
*This is the first appearance of [[Ahmis Ship]].
*This is the first published page of the [[:Category:Ahmis Plot|Ahmis Plot]], but not the first one in chronological order. The previous page in chronological order is [[Page 0091]].
*The tale of the pebble in the last panel is recounted in the guest strip [[:Category:Pebble|Pebble]].

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2018-04-15T16:50:11Z

Epideme: Added Date

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*Querido nieto:
*I am dying, Pablito, so let your grandfather tell you a secret... and then a secret within a secret.
*First, the secret you must take to you grave: The Empire can never know the origin of the Drive. The Drive is the foundation of our power, the center from which all authority flows. If we lose control of the Drive, we lose the empire, and we slide back to the starving days that haunted humanity.
*Second, the secret within the secret. And Pablo, it is something I have never even told your father. But you have a wisdom about you that he lacks. An insight. And I think this bit of knowledge will serve you well when it comes time for you to rule:
*Pablo, I do not know how it works.
*Oh, of course I could reverse engineer it. I could scale it up and scale it down. I could even vary the materials and sometimes get results. But as to how it works, I do not know. I have stared at it for 58 years and I understand it less and less. It is beyond me.
*But with the hope that it won't remain beyond you, let me give you my best guess. Or, at least, my best imagery.
*Take a coin, and slide it along a long tablecloth at low velocity. It would take hours to make it across the table. Now, take the cloth and pinch it up in the middle. The coin maintains the same low velocity, but makes much further ground across the cloth. That, I believe, is how the Drive works, Pablo. We skirt across the crests of pinched space.
*'''- Emperor Conrado I, in a letter to his oldest grandson.'''
*'''(Unpublished. Held in the Biblioteca Privada de La Familia.)'''
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==Trivia==
*Date is 2316 (58 years on from 2258)
*This is the first time Pablo is mentioned.
*Translations:
**''Querido nieto'' - Dear nephew
**''Biblioteca Privada de La Familia'' - private library of [[La Familia]]

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