I’m in a good mood, so here’s Outbreak now instead of next week. I’m in less of a good mood than I was before I popped open StoryMill to find it had eaten a bunch of the file (it’s never done that before…) but it turned out to be mostly intact and only took about an hour to fix up.
I intend to get few installments of the precursors to Paradigm Shift up in the coming days, since it takes place in October.
Spoiler for Outbreak:
[spoiler]I recall a discussion about how Kieran would have gotten his hands on all this fancy stuff - a shuttle, an AI for just the family’s use… It’s now been somewhat explained. Breaking the spoiler in half in case you don’t want to see the out-of-installment explanation…[/spoiler]
[spoiler]Basically, Kieran was a biotech guy with talents in the Art until his promotion in the Artisan’s Guild came down. When he was moved to a Grand Mastery position he made it his priority and stepped down from his other work. One of his prior colleagues came to him for help with a project (Bee’s future AI core) and as payment Kieran requested a prototype for a shuttle he was rebuilding. Where’d he get the shuttle to rebuild? Er… Nothing to see here, move along.[/spoiler]