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The Ice Harvest
The Ice Harvest In 2094 the asteroid 16 Psyche was no longer a curiosity. The metallic worldlet—226 km across, 2.41 × 10¹⁹ kg of mostly iron-nickel with a thin silicate rind—had been claimed under the 2047 Lunar Accord extension. Three corporate…
Breath Credit
Breath Credit In 2041, the air in New Pacifica wasn’t free anymore. The Aether Corporation had won the Clean Sky Mandate three years earlier. After the last mega-wildfire season turned half the West Coast into ash and the jet stream carried…