Pride X Familiar ReVamp (Pride X ReVamp Book 1) by Albert Ruckholdt

Author:Albert Ruckholdt [Ruckholdt, Albert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Albert Ruckholdt
Published: 2015-11-05T23:00:00+00:00

Reflections – 9.

As I’ve explained before, the Cataclysm left behind a giant cloud of dust and debris that was christened the Hurakan Nebula. The asteroid Island colony of Pharos floated a couple of light-years within the border of the nebula.

However, I haven’t explained what purpose Pharos served.

The colony was an oasis – a port of call for the hundreds of starships that traveled back and forth through the mapped regions of the nebula. Freighters, mining ships, resource vessels, they all dove into the murky, cloudy space and kept the machinery of commerce and industry running.

The Hurakan is a source of raw material. Trillions upon trillions of tonnes of it – the remains of shattered star systems and planetary bodies the trans-light shockwave claimed in the first hours of the Cataclysm. All of this material was simply too much to pass up. Even while Pharos was being constructed, mining and shipping companies were already charting and staking claims on territory within the nebula.

It didn’t seem to matter that the Hurakan was a graveyard to the billions of people that died on those worlds.

The Aventis are as greedy as the next Regular.

However, there was another reason for building Pharos.

It served as a home for the Prides intent on harvesting the Fragments and Artifacts slowly trickling out of the nebula. The Sanreal Pride used its shipbuilding prowess and its experienced crews to sail deep into the nebula, acting as pathfinders for the mining and resource ships that would eventually follow. The Sanreals were always at the forefront of exploration.

The other Prides would make efforts to compete against them, but the Sanreals had kept their edge over the competition for decades, until the Lanfears happened upon a collection of Fragments that boosted their efforts at space exploration. Fairly soon, they were finding some rather juicy Fragments on their own.

If they weren’t trusted before, afterwards the Lanfear Pride was trusted even less.

By the same coin, the Lanfears had never trusted the other seven Prides, not even their close cousins the Raynars. That’s not to say they didn’t work together with the Prides, they just did so with a measure of caution best reserved for dealing with dangerous foes.

I might be generalizing too much.

I knew that Arisa had a good relationship with the Countess, and with Severin Kell.

But I also knew there was an undercurrent of distrust between the Imrehs and the Alucards.

In particular, Arisa had drawn the ire of the Raynar Witch – Simone’s older sister – and the woman who scouted my sister for Public Security, before she joined the Sanctum’s ranks.

In any case, the point I was trying to make was that Fragments and Artifacts found out in the Hurakan were returned to a secret repository on Pharos to be shared between the Prides. Each piece was carefully analyzed, and tested, then the Prides would follow procedure and allocate them to a compatible Familiar if one was available.

However, there was little doubt in Arisa’s mind that the Prides were careful with what they shared.

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