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[no number or storyline given - can be placed after just about any initial in media res scene.]
It wasn't always like this. Long ago the Empire brought prosperity, stability and infrastructure to these lands, trade was booming and the great Sun-Sea was not the onerous barrier it is today. Until about eighty years ago you could make twenty inter-continental trips and never once feel the sea was there, ( a mere illusion of vastness on the horizon caused by the sharp curvature of our small world. )
It wasn't always like this. Long ago the Empire brought prosperity, stability and infrastructure to these lands, trade was booming and the great Sun-Sea was not the onerous barrier it is today. Until about eighty years ago you could make twenty inter-continental trips and never once feel the sea was there, ( a mere illusion of vastness on the horizon caused by the sharp curvature of our small world. )