Place · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin

The Homecoming Queen

The Crest behemoth in Earth orbit that brought the veterans: York's haunted ship, secretly the best-armed in orbit, with enhancement-zone weapons Porthus had installed.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 69 — Interlude — Several days earlier; Interlude — Rosetta; Zarogoths
• Chapter 85 — Zerzura
• Epilogue — Epilogue: Don't Come in Last

Arc

The Crest behemoth that brought fifty thousand (ch. 11); ordered to shoot down an orc yacht (ch. 69); the veterans' way back under the embargo (ch. 85). York's haunted ship, secretly the best-armed in orbit with Porthus's enhancement-zone weapons green across the board, docking to load soldiers (epilogue).