The Abeyance

Many worlds bear scars of the War: smoldering cities, polluted skies, and fields of dead metal that stretch beyond sight. As survivors and travelers behold these desolate places, rumors of strange forces begin to spread: a mauve miasma that glistens in the moonlight; a dissonant chorus of creaking metal; empty battlefields, abandoned even by the dead. Those that see the War through spreadsheets an…