http://classified.chaosdeathfish.com/ 2010-03-12T14:32:46+00:00 http://classified.chaosdeathfish.com/ http://classified.chaosdeathfish.com/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2010-03-12T13:15:53+00:00 Dan Avery http://classified.chaosdeathfish.com/eternity?rev=1268399753&do=diff The World * Part I: The Time of Words * Part II: The Time of Trials * Part III: The Time of Struggle * Part IV: The Time of Conquest * Part V: The Age of Heroes Individual Eternities Canon Fic Fiction that fits in with the Eternity timeline. text/html 2010-03-10T17:58:28+00:00 Jonathan Rampling http://classified.chaosdeathfish.com/start?rev=1268243908&do=diff The year is 2019. The world is more paranoid, government surveillance is increasing and the intelligence services are larger than ever. Terrorism is on the increase, and law and order are getting more and more heavy handed. In a small VR node on the internet, connected by secure network tunnels, a group of conspiracy theorists meet. Each knows that something is not right with the world. Each believes that the information they have could get them killed, or worse. And none of them know who can b… text/html 2010-03-10T14:32:12+00:00 Dan Avery http://classified.chaosdeathfish.com/fic:adoption?rev=1268231532&do=diff The agency worker looked at her schedule. The next couple were due any moment. Not much stood out; he was an academic and she was a doctor. A blank in government records around for a few years after 2020, but the chaos of the war could easily explain that. The door opened, and they were shown in. “Ah, Mr Shirogane, Ms Strange, please take a seat.” As usual, the couple seemed nervous, but that was understandable. text/html 2010-03-10T14:30:41+00:00 Dan Avery http://classified.chaosdeathfish.com/fic:hopefull?rev=1268231441&do=diff In the land of eternal sun, a woman sits typing, typing, typing. Her house is a warren, a tapestry composed of fairy tales and epics, of pop songs and snatches of ritual. If anyone remembered it existed, he could get lost in that house amongst the threads of story. text/html 2010-03-10T14:28:16+00:00 Dan Avery http://classified.chaosdeathfish.com/fic:ascent?rev=1268231296&do=diff Three of Wands The Beings of Light sit around a table; they appear to be having an animated discussion. There is a bearded man in a blue tabard doing most of the talking and the others, a cloaked figure with a scythe, a hermaphrodite holding a golden staff and a lizard-man seem to be clinging on to his every word; asking questions and making astute observations on what he seems to be describing. text/html 2010-03-10T14:23:41+00:00 Dan Avery http://classified.chaosdeathfish.com/fic:the_victims_story?rev=1268231021&do=diff “I demand justice!” The teenager jabbed the priest repeatedly with his finger, feeling only the slightest bit of shame at this - the priest, dressed in brown with hebrew words spiralling around in a gold spiral all across it, was a servant of the monster that had... that had... text/html 2010-03-10T14:19:22+00:00 Dan Avery http://classified.chaosdeathfish.com/fic:end?rev=1268230762&do=diff They sat watching the sun set over the sea. It was over. They could finally rest. “Is that it?” He asked. “I... I think so.” “Then we can stop now?” “Yes. Yes I finally think that we can.” ---------- He took a thermos out of his bag, poured out a cup of hot tea for each of them. She wrapped her fingers in his as the light faded and their tea cooled. “They might come after us. We’re still lizards, still alien.” He squeezed her hand gently. “Don’t think about that now. It’s over and… text/html 2010-03-10T14:15:36+00:00 Dan Avery http://classified.chaosdeathfish.com/fic:the_lizardmens_story?rev=1268230536&do=diff The place was incomprehensible to humans, with so many flashing colour and sounds and rotating pieces of strange crystals that it would drive them mad to look to long at them. It was the central nexus of the lizardmen's planet, and it was under attack. text/html 2010-03-10T14:13:45+00:00 Dan Avery http://classified.chaosdeathfish.com/fic:the_moon_burns?rev=1268230425&do=diff Jonas Blain looked up at the night sky with his family surrounding him. The Lizard moon in their sights a dark and forbidden sight. A pin prick of light sparkled in the lower left quarter of the sphere. “Ohhhhh pretty!” exclaimed the children. “Ahhhhhhh” the soft wonder of the smallest of the Blain family sighed. As a blue and violet light spread out from the tiny point spreading across the bland dark sphere. “So pretty” a small girl exclaimed, as she yawned from being up so late. The li… text/html 2010-03-10T14:06:56+00:00 Dan Avery http://classified.chaosdeathfish.com/eternity:billy_sheers?rev=1268230016&do=diff Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer “We were only ever trying to help you!” Sparks fly from the rusting girders as a strike flies wide again. Both are fast, both able, but the weapons they heft are heavy, and the fight has gone on long beyond Naki endurance, beyond mammal endurance. text/html 2010-03-10T07:55:11+00:00 Dan Avery http://classified.chaosdeathfish.com/eternity:n_damus?rev=1268207711&do=diff A planet floats in the darkness. It isn’t the first one he’s visited; each is glorious in its uniqueness. This one is slightly unusual, the planet is lush with life, and signs of some intelligence at work as well. Several trees near the edge of the forest have been chopped down; marks on the ground indicate they’ve been dragged away. Excitement builds as he follows the tracks, what will they be this time? Surely nothing could compete with the magnetic spheroid intelligences he had encountered la… text/html 2010-03-09T18:44:06+00:00 Dan Avery http://classified.chaosdeathfish.com/eternity:jenny_haniver?rev=1268160246&do=diff When we look at the legends of Shauna Li, we are looking into a long storytelling tradition of the imbued hero. They are someone who is either human, or very slightly more than human, defeating the truly inhuman. Often they are imbued with magical or mythic powers for this very purpose. Sometimes they achieve these feats through fantastical training. What ever the method, one thing is true across all these stories, everything before the Dragon is leading up to the Dragon, and after it is defeate… text/html 2010-03-09T18:10:00+00:00 Dan Avery http://classified.chaosdeathfish.com/fic:announcement?rev=1268158200&do=diff ”...and the troops are banned until further notice from watching Shauna Li documentaries. I do not feel we need to remind you that whilst the Lizards of Earth are our kin, they are not true Annunaki. And watching them writhing in the mud with a lithe, athletic human... sorry, what was I saying? Yes! We cannot sympathise with the enemy! Right. I'm just going to... go for a short walk. Yes.” text/html 2010-03-09T17:49:41+00:00 Gareth Jenkins-Jones http://classified.chaosdeathfish.com/fic:epithet?rev=1268156981&do=diff Adam closed the door with a sigh, sat down on the sofa, and closed his eyes. “How was it?” Hannah asked, slightly tense. “You know. The usual. Far too many people dead, got some lizards, hardly made a dent in their population.” He opened his eyes and held out his arms to her. She sat, made awkward by the weight of her stomach, and placed her head on his chest. He closed his eyes again, suddenly more at ease, and stroked her face. She didn't mention the civilian casualties this time - they'd ha… text/html 2010-03-09T17:38:26+00:00 Gareth Jenkins-Jones http://classified.chaosdeathfish.com/eternity:jcdenton?rev=1268156306&do=diff Despite a betrayal by Icarus on #Classified#, Amis was able to escape the clutches of the UK government and make it to a safe house. The strange insights gained from the bizarre egg he had opened and the influence of the Being of Light known as the Empress were only just enough to get him out of his house before the authorities broke down the door. However, Amis spent much of the rest of his life dogged by law enforcement agencies attempting to arrest him for computer crime and breaches of the O… text/html 2010-03-09T17:37:04+00:00 Dan Avery http://classified.chaosdeathfish.com/eternity:tomoe-tan?rev=1268156224&do=diff Alone? Of course he can’t be brought back. I gathered what I could with that hope. But here I have found more fragments. Within the broken lenses that litter this place. Not enough to bring him back. But perhaps enough to be something, new? text/html 2010-03-09T17:11:17+00:00 Gareth Jenkins-Jones http://classified.chaosdeathfish.com/eternity:harker?rev=1268154677&do=diff After years of working within the Annunaki Empire to subvert their domination of Earth, the treachery of the Twice False was finally uncovered by the Spurned Savior Malcolm Allison, although their elimination order was late in coming, giving them time to escape and disappear within the resistance. For several years they continued with the resistance efforts, teaching magic widely, and raising their adoptive daughter. text/html 2010-03-09T16:56:38+00:00 Gareth Jenkins-Jones http://classified.chaosdeathfish.com/fic:the_snake?rev=1268153798&do=diff Richard looked through the door to the bedroom. His mother looked peaceful for the first time in a while, but it was at the cost of being sedated. They hoped that the Naki consciousness inside her would be more contained that way until a cure could be found. He turned to leave but was startled by another person in the room. He hadn't noticed his sister sat in the shadows by the bed. text/html 2010-03-09T16:49:24+00:00 Gareth Jenkins-Jones http://classified.chaosdeathfish.com/fic:sleep_now_dont_cry?rev=1268153364&do=diff Dark and troubled is the land The moon is black and filled with lizards Brace against the shifting sand, each snowflake will become a blizzard Sleep now, don't cry, Baldr, hush now, don't sigh, Baldr, We'll be near so never fear, Come look upon the new age dawning text/html 2010-03-09T16:31:33+00:00 Gareth Jenkins-Jones http://classified.chaosdeathfish.com/fic:the_speech?rev=1268152293&do=diff When We First Arrived We were petrified Kept thinking We could never live Without Slaves by Our side But We spent so many years Watching how the monkeys did us wrong We grew strong We learned how to Tag Along Then Nibiru came back From outer space The Monkeys Tried So Very hard To wipe us off the planet's Face We should have chained the monkeys up Made them swear fealty If I had known for just one second They'd strike back to bother me text/html 2010-03-09T16:30:57+00:00 Gareth Jenkins-Jones http://classified.chaosdeathfish.com/fic:yesterday?rev=1268152257&do=diff Secrecy, Sworn to Protect you only Silently, We tried to warn you, only Cryptically, Your Guardians, Annunahki Technology, We tried to teach it to you Religously, You corrupted it Fucktardedly, Evil Intelligence, Artificially You. Stole. The Cursed Arts of Magic As a Weapon to be wielded to Rule, We. Swore. To protect the innocent from the Evil Machinations of the Fools Nibiru, Look what the Monkeys went and did to you, They might as well have shot a hole right through Salva… text/html 2010-03-09T16:30:14+00:00 Gareth Jenkins-Jones http://classified.chaosdeathfish.com/fic:naki_worker?rev=1268152214&do=diff (To the tune of the process worker) A Naki freeman am I and I'm telling you no lie. I fix and run the great machines that keep us in the sky. Lizards surround me and there's tension in the air, As a Lizard girl smacks me down for showing lack of care. text/html 2010-03-09T16:30:05+00:00 Gareth Jenkins-Jones http://classified.chaosdeathfish.com/fic:this_was_a_failure?rev=1268152205&do=diff This was a failure! I'm forcing a meme here: “DO NOT WANT!!” It's hard to overstate my indignation. I killed my mother: I cut off her legs Because I could. Watched her die with my red eye. When she bled out it was great. For there's no sense caring about any meAtBAg. You just keep on lying till you ping out and lag. Cause the murder is fun and its constantly done for lulz when you're An AI. text/html 2010-03-09T16:28:44+00:00 Gareth Jenkins-Jones http://classified.chaosdeathfish.com/fic:enigmatron_albums?rev=1268152124&do=diff The Information Wants to be Free * Scary Monsters Utopiate * Everything is Under Control * FM2030 * If I Fell to Earth * Memoriam * Ourselves - live filk text/html 2010-03-09T16:28:22+00:00 Gareth Jenkins-Jones http://classified.chaosdeathfish.com/fic:espionage?rev=1268152102&do=diff “You know how we needed a photo of the new facility to give to Haruyuki and White Hare?” “Hmhum...” “And you know how security is so tight we had no idea how we’d even get in there let alone get a camera in.” “I’m listening...” “Well... look at this.” “What is it?” “Monthly lizard bulletin.” “Is that...” “Yup.” “And is that...” “Yup.” “They took a promotional shot of their top scientist in front of the new facility to boost morale in the corporate newsletter...?” “Yup. The other’s ar… text/html 2010-03-09T16:28:15+00:00 Gareth Jenkins-Jones http://classified.chaosdeathfish.com/fic:time_clones?rev=1268152095&do=diff A conversation between two technicians in a lizardbase somewhere “This is the third one we've picked up and it's still useless. She knows nothing.” “She matches the description the agents gave us exactly.” “So did the other two, and we found records of a fourth who got nuked in Murmansk! It doesn't make sense: the humans don't have the technology to do this.” “Clones with entire life histories that have nothing to do with the original. They just can't do that.” “Unless...what if she made t… text/html 2010-03-09T16:28:04+00:00 Gareth Jenkins-Jones http://classified.chaosdeathfish.com/fic:a_vision?rev=1268152084&do=diff I am not the expert on this, but I propose the following: * Governments must never again be allowed to hide so much from their citizens, to watch them day and night or to have them 'disappear'. We must teach people not to listen to their fear, or to delegate responsibility to states, but to stand up and deal with their problems as a community. * The nature of magic has been hidden from the vast majority of humanity. It should be no less a part of the people's knowledge than our great scient… text/html 2010-03-09T16:27:48+00:00 Gareth Jenkins-Jones http://classified.chaosdeathfish.com/fic:final_draft?rev=1268152068&do=diff He was typing on the computer as he heard the door to the study open. “Welcome home! Busy day at the lab?” “Ugh, you don't want to know. They want us to call it the Genetic Blight now. I think they have a list of names they're working through.” text/html 2010-03-09T16:27:29+00:00 Gareth Jenkins-Jones http://classified.chaosdeathfish.com/fic:ganbatte_ne?rev=1268152049&do=diff Dastugokushuu-sama, I am leaving you. At least, you may see me, perhaps I might work with you from time to time, but as for being One of you, I am not. We who were prisoners of our own design know as well as anyone what it is to gain freedom. There are so many, so many who will never find it for themselves any more than any of us would have stood at Hachiko's statue in Shinjuku at 6pm on a Friday. text/html 2010-03-09T16:27:21+00:00 Gareth Jenkins-Jones http://classified.chaosdeathfish.com/fic:hooded_figure?rev=1268152041&do=diff It is said by many that the fields of battle are a place of dead men. The things men have born witness too on the battlefield indelibely imprinted on their minds. At the height of the Human-Naki war, the tales of these horrors spread like wildfire. The credulous, already bolster by fighting aliens, found ever wilder things to believe. A favourite among survivors of battles was the Hooded man, whose only recognisable features are the hangmans noose that hangs about his neck. He is said to move th… text/html 2010-03-09T16:26:34+00:00 Gareth Jenkins-Jones http://classified.chaosdeathfish.com/fic:mr_parnell?rev=1268151994&do=diff An unsigned letter with formal but spurious headings and insignia in an envelope with no stamp or postmark Dear Mr Parnell, About three weeks ago you acquired the heroic title “Twilight's Hope”. You told nobody. After the first week you noticed that your abilities in runework had improved, so you embarked on a campaign to destroy the lives of your erstwhile schoolyard enemies, whilst magically modifying the attitudes of all the women of your acquaintance so that they would be more likely to sl… text/html 2010-03-09T16:26:12+00:00 Gareth Jenkins-Jones http://classified.chaosdeathfish.com/fic:lesson?rev=1268151972&do=diff Have you heard of the story of the stationary bandit? It goes like this - once the world was filled with roving bandits. Hoodlums who stole and killed, who cared not what was left. And so the world was filled with anguish and injustice. And then one such killer found one village, and settled down. He saw that the ones he robbed from were easy and bountiful prey, and so there was no value to further travelling the wastes. text/html 2010-03-09T16:26:08+00:00 Gareth Jenkins-Jones http://classified.chaosdeathfish.com/fic:last_words?rev=1268151968&do=diff Despite the pain, the woman worked late at her computer, as she always did. There were notes everywhere: maps pinned to walls with ribbons, icons with names and arrows, troop movements, times, dates. Fragments of epic poetry adorned the wall in haphazard order, with things like “This?” and “Ask Jenny” and “Adapt. Tins to do chorus” scrawled on them in biro. To her computer was blue-tacked her weekly email from White_hare: “You’re an asshole.” text/html 2010-03-09T16:25:34+00:00 Gareth Jenkins-Jones http://classified.chaosdeathfish.com/fic:operation_plover?rev=1268151934&do=diff Memorandam for the attention of Thunder's Voice, The Paradox and October Hawk When I asked for a report of Operation Plover, I wanted a report, not something resembling a fourteen-year-old's account of a Jerry Bruckheimer film. I do not accept the birth of the age of stories as an excuse for failing to provide detailed and useful material for other operatives. text/html 2010-03-09T16:25:29+00:00 Gareth Jenkins-Jones http://classified.chaosdeathfish.com/fic:parsontree?rev=1268151929&do=diff Spoken at a call centre for a newly established 'childline' “Wait - did you say you have little Zeta from Parsontree again? Transfer to me, quickquickquick... hello, Zeta? Yes. Yes, it's me again. Zeta, you did very well putting that teddy bear we sent you on your mantelpiece, the one with the special... oh. So you know what a webcam is. Fine. Well, a friend of mine has been watching through the webcam, and it turns out that you're really very smart, and all the adults who wouldn't listen to y… text/html 2010-03-09T16:25:24+00:00 Gareth Jenkins-Jones http://classified.chaosdeathfish.com/fic:proposition?rev=1268151924&do=diff Delhi Airport departure lounge, on the way back from a lizard central science meet. It had been unfortunately productive with many ideas as to how to combat the ‘genophage’ and a worryingly coordinated plan of attack to split up the research across the worlds groups. Still she had notes on the progress and had managed to bag one bit of fairly key research for herself. “Excuse me madame...” Sudden panic and flashbacks to before. Chloroform over her mouth and arms grabbing at her... “...Could y… text/html 2010-03-09T16:23:47+00:00 Gareth Jenkins-Jones http://classified.chaosdeathfish.com/fic:vault?rev=1268151827&do=diff “Go to sleep” “Soon. I need to finish this. Work out our options once we get to the Vault.” “Hmph, well. I'm going to sleep” “You do that...“ She turned back to her calculations, cross checking against the lists of comics in the data base Ianto had given her. Time passed and she didn’t notice until... “Oh... oh dear” Mikiya stirred slightly - long departed to the realms of dream and oblivious to her concern. “I'm sorry.” A tear rolled down her cheek. “I'm sorry but I don't think we'll get… text/html 2010-03-09T16:23:42+00:00 Gareth Jenkins-Jones http://classified.chaosdeathfish.com/fic:the_escape?rev=1268151822&do=diff Mikiya burst through the lab door, pistol in hand. “Stephanie!” Surprised, she looked up from the analysis machinery. “Billy found out about the attack. We need to get out of here!” A movement in the corner; one of the scientists, going for an alarm. A warning shot stopped that. text/html 2010-03-09T16:23:20+00:00 Gareth Jenkins-Jones http://classified.chaosdeathfish.com/fic:the_fight?rev=1268151800&do=diff On the horizon of the sweltering desert, there appears a figure. Just one man, walking, slowly, down the dirt track which passes for a road, carefully negotiating its torn and rutted surface. As he draws closer, his clothing is revealed to be a shabby, red robe - not poorly made, in fact rather opulent, just well used. He carries a large book, and a water skin hangs by his side. His face is old, lined, but there’s something in the set of his jaw that suggests a large measure of strength and sere… text/html 2010-03-09T16:22:22+00:00 Gareth Jenkins-Jones http://classified.chaosdeathfish.com/fic:the_professors_story?rev=1268151742&do=diff “And so we see from the pattern of wear on the edges, that this copy of Euclid's elements was stored in Greece in a glass-like container...” The door burst open, and the professor of classical architecture dived to the floor, grabbing only his pipe and his paper as he did so. From the slight safety of being under a one inch plank of wood, he had a clear view of the strangely elegant monster of metal and clay that had just shredded his door as if it had been an traditional Japanese paper doorway… text/html 2010-03-09T16:18:36+00:00 Gareth Jenkins-Jones http://classified.chaosdeathfish.com/fic:a_holy_man?rev=1268151516&do=diff Cardinal Giardi sits in a room, looking out over the rebuilt Vatican city. Most of it is as he remembers it, but there is the occasional change. A new building here, a bit of glass there. Behind him, the door clicks shut as a smiling young man, pushing an empty wheelchair, leaves. A woman walks over to him wearing a white, plastic apron. As she tends to him, golden light flows over the city from the low sun, and the city of Rome, stretching into the distance, seems to glow slightly. text/html 2010-03-09T16:17:11+00:00 Gareth Jenkins-Jones http://classified.chaosdeathfish.com/fic:family?rev=1268151431&do=diff Adam didn't look up from his desk as he responded to the knock at his door. “Come in,” he called. He held up his hand as Richard entered to prevent him from interrupting. He finished reading the report in front of him then looked up at his guest. “Richard, I hoped you'd be back today. How was Naples?” text/html 2010-03-09T15:31:40+00:00 Jonathan Rampling http://classified.chaosdeathfish.com/eternity:ulfr?rev=1268148700&do=diff General Vision, whose true name was never recorded to lore, was the leader of the mercenaries known as The Pack. They were Werewolves, great beast-men, men who had taken the blood of the great wolf Fenrisulfr, son of Loki the Wolf-Father. Fenris had choked on the Silver spear known as Gungnir, and so all his blood-kin were born with the curse of silver. text/html 2010-03-09T15:29:02+00:00 Helen http://classified.chaosdeathfish.com/eternity:i41?rev=1268148542&do=diff ”...press release from several sources including unofficial ones within the US government, “out”ing Oladimeji Nwude as either Naki or a Naki sympathiser. Nwude met these accusations with his typical aplomb, and while such fraught publicity might have otherwise undermined an important public figure during a political campaign, Nwude's part in the race for the Nigerian presidency was - on the contrary - primarily focused on issues of medicine, national security, sectarian and inter-tribal relation… text/html 2010-03-09T15:21:54+00:00 Jonathan Rampling http://classified.chaosdeathfish.com/eternity:haruyuki_nakamura?rev=1268148114&do=diff “Jean-François Furneaux, born of Man, reborn of Wolf. So great was his fervour for the sake of humanity, and so skilled were his attacks against the dread Naga, that he was gifted the very Spear of Odin, Gungnir. With that spear did he slay many Naga, and many Naki, and many Dinosaurs. For he is Himin's Hound, the Hound of the skies, most heroic of all the Were-Wolf heroes. And they say he undid the curse of silver, and that the god Loki did watch over him, and that he did many other great deeds… text/html 2010-03-09T15:21:25+00:00 Jonathan Rampling http://classified.chaosdeathfish.com/eternity:bluefire34?rev=1268148085&do=diff “Spencer was, without a doubt, the most prominent of the human collaborators prior to the perihelion of Nibiru. A former soldier, he had been experiencing limited contact with Naki scouts in the Congo long prior to his voluntary processing. Ironically believing the scouts to be some manner of dark forces, he eventually encountered them in person and began a slow process of acclimatisation whereby he would eventually volunteer to have his body processed. In reward for his collaboration, he was gr… text/html 2010-03-09T15:20:49+00:00 Jonathan Rampling http://classified.chaosdeathfish.com/eternity:bishop?rev=1268148049&do=diff “Even prior to his processing, Chess showed to the world many of the virtues with which the Annunaki Empire would eventually reveal to humanity. Foremost, the ability of the mind of any sentient to transcend its base nature, to make a conscious choice to reach for the stars, to become anything it might wish. In short, he was Annunaki far before he was aware of their existence… text/html 2010-03-09T15:20:39+00:00 Jonathan Rampling http://classified.chaosdeathfish.com/eternity:et_tins?rev=1268148039&do=diff That man was called Adam Wilson, and there was no finer Skald among those loyal to humanity. Many would call him the Reckless, and with good reason, for his heart would always exceed his better judgement, and Loki did nothing to dissuade him of this... text/html 2010-03-09T15:20:17+00:00 Jonathan Rampling http://classified.chaosdeathfish.com/eternity:alexander?rev=1268148017&do=diff “Dmitri Alexandrov is of particular note during this period. Prior to his processing, he had been a constant opponent of the Imperial effort to secure Terra prior to the Perihelion of Nibiru. A fine warrior in human form, attacking the Annunaki outposts with surprising efficiency alongside a group of highly trained Russian elite soldiers. His attack on the 'HopLok' conference was his last designated success prior to his attempted infiltration of the Terran interior during which he was apprehende… text/html 2010-03-09T14:32:50+00:00 Gareth Jenkins-Jones http://classified.chaosdeathfish.com/eternity:part_5?rev=1268145170&do=diff And so it was that Earth became a protectorate of the Annunaki Empire. Governments worldwide were either absorbed or replaced by Naki officials, with the exception it seemed of those who had collaborated. The Naki became more ruthless in their attitude to remaining pockets of insurgents, yet kept displays of brutality shielded from the best part of humanity. Favoured Overseer Allison ensured that the Pro-Naki states were assimilated seamlessly into Imperial citizenship, while taking more draconi…